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Objective: To identify cutaneous manifestations of skin tuberculosis among MDR patients at Abu-Anga hospital Khartoum-Sudan during the year 2020 and to determine the most clinical variant skin tuberculosis in addition to its main risk factors.
Methods: Prospective, cross-sectional, hospital-based study. From January- December 2020. The study sample consisted of 62 patients attending the hospital and all were diagnosed as MDR tuberculosis. Data was collected using a detailed and structured data collection sheet.
Results: Two out of total number (n=62) were diagnosed as skin tuberculosis that confirmed with skin biopsy constituting 3.2%. the age of these patients was found 29 years and 70 years and both were male with one of them had diabetes, history of contact and pulmonary tuberculosis in one patient each time.
One patient was found to have scrofuloderma type and the other had lupus vulgaris type, BCG scar was negative in both patients while it was found in 20 patients (32.3%) of total patients with MDR.
All patients of this study with MDR were screened negative for HIV, 58 patients (93.5%) is having a history of pulmonary tuberculosis and a history of contact in 33 patients (53.2%) and diabetes mellitus was encountered in 12 patients (19.4%) .
In spite that the incidence of cutaneous tuberculosis among MDR is very low in Sudan yet it should be on back of the mind when treating chronic skin lesions.
