De-novo Histoid Leprosy

Histoid leprosy is a rare form of multibacillary leprosy with distinct clinical and histopathological features. It is a variant of lepromatous leprosy. It occurs in lepromatous patients, who relapse after dapsone monotherapy, in the presence of dapsone resistance or at times ‘de-novo’. We describe h...

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Autores principales: Murthy, Srinivasa V, Rao, Sudha M, Thejaswini, Mannan, Keerti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22219565
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.86844
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author Murthy, Srinivasa V
Rao, Sudha M
Thejaswini,
Mannan, Keerti
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description Histoid leprosy is a rare form of multibacillary leprosy with distinct clinical and histopathological features. It is a variant of lepromatous leprosy. It occurs in lepromatous patients, who relapse after dapsone monotherapy, in the presence of dapsone resistance or at times ‘de-novo’. We describe here a case of histoid leprosy, clinically mimicking neurofibromatosis.
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spelling pubmed-32497062012-01-04 De-novo Histoid Leprosy Murthy, Srinivasa V Rao, Sudha M Thejaswini, Mannan, Keerti J Lab Physicians Case Report Histoid leprosy is a rare form of multibacillary leprosy with distinct clinical and histopathological features. It is a variant of lepromatous leprosy. It occurs in lepromatous patients, who relapse after dapsone monotherapy, in the presence of dapsone resistance or at times ‘de-novo’. We describe here a case of histoid leprosy, clinically mimicking neurofibromatosis. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3249706/ /pubmed/22219565 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.86844 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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