The treatment of tuberculosis of the skin by surgical means is a recognized method of therapy. For the most part, the procedure has been advocated for comparatively small patches of lupus vulgaris, although surgical intervention has been successfully used for extensive examples of the disease, as in the case recently presented by Traub.1 The following case is reported to show the desirable results obtained in advanced lupus by electrocoagulation combined with surgical excision.
REPORT OF CASE
G. N., an Italo-American housewife aged 24, was admitted to the dermatologic clinic of the Reading Hospital on Sept. 22, 1934. Her eruption began at the age of 6 years, when she suffered a wound on the sole of the left foot. A year later a "sore" developed on the upper part of her left thigh. The lesion healed rapidly, but within another twelve months several ulcers appeared about the left knee. Within