![Click here to see the picture 39-A1](figuras/39-0001p.jpg) Fig.39-A1 Tuberculoid Lepra
A 13-years old schoolgirl from the town Barinas / Venezuela had a two years lasting erythematous -papilomatous skin lesion on her left cheek despite of several treatments improvement was not observed.
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![Click here to see the picture 39-B1](figuras/39-0003p.jpg) Fig.39-B1 Dermatophytosis
A 38-years old female patient presents on her right cheek a circular, reddish focus with a marked formation of crusts which had started several weeks ago. A biopsy was refused.
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![Click here to see the picture 39-A2](figuras/39-0002p.jpg) Fig.39-A2 Tuberculoid Lepra
In a small biopsy a granuloma is seen under higher power consisting of epitheloid cells. Both, the ZN and the Grocott method were negative. The Mitsuda reaction of the skin was weakly positive.
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![Click here to see the picture 39-B2](figuras/39-0004p.jpg) Fig.39-B2 Dermatophytosis
The culture of scraped clinical material showed after three weeks growing on Sabouraud-Glucose-Agar a whitish flocky colony with a reddish-brown border.
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