The authors describe four cases of skin tuberculosis diagnosed in the Šumperk hospital between years 1995 and 2001. In spite of thenowadays rarely occurring skin tuberculosis in the Czech republic the report reminds, that it is still necessary to consider it in the differential diagnostics of skin diseases, especially, in view of increasing travelling to exotic countries and migration.

        Key words: tuberculosis of the skin - Mycobacterium tuberculosis - diagnostics - treatment