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Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case
Leprosy is a neglected disease. We point up the need of recognizing the unusual clinical presentations of the disease in order to make early diagnosis and proper treatment possible, and break the transmission chain. The authors report a rare type of multibacillary leprosy: histoid leprosy and presen...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631246/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20154049 |
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| author | de Andrade, Pedro Jose Secchin Messias, Sulamita dos Santos Nascimento Dutra Ferreira, Paola Cristina Brandão Oliveira Sales, Anna Maria Machado, Alice de Miranda Nery, José Augusto da Costa |
| author_facet | de Andrade, Pedro Jose Secchin Messias, Sulamita dos Santos Nascimento Dutra Ferreira, Paola Cristina Brandão Oliveira Sales, Anna Maria Machado, Alice de Miranda Nery, José Augusto da Costa |
| author_sort | de Andrade, Pedro Jose Secchin |
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| description | Leprosy is a neglected disease. We point up the need of recognizing the unusual clinical presentations of the disease in order to make early diagnosis and proper treatment possible, and break the transmission chain. The authors report a rare type of multibacillary leprosy: histoid leprosy and present images of numerous well-circumscribed indurated papules and nodules distributed throughout the entire body. |
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| spelling | pubmed-46312462015-11-04 Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case de Andrade, Pedro Jose Secchin Messias, Sulamita dos Santos Nascimento Dutra Ferreira, Paola Cristina Brandão Oliveira Sales, Anna Maria Machado, Alice de Miranda Nery, José Augusto da Costa An Bras Dermatol Images in Tropical Dermatology Leprosy is a neglected disease. We point up the need of recognizing the unusual clinical presentations of the disease in order to make early diagnosis and proper treatment possible, and break the transmission chain. The authors report a rare type of multibacillary leprosy: histoid leprosy and present images of numerous well-circumscribed indurated papules and nodules distributed throughout the entire body. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4631246/ /pubmed/26560226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20154049 Text en © 2015 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| spellingShingle | Images in Tropical Dermatology de Andrade, Pedro Jose Secchin Messias, Sulamita dos Santos Nascimento Dutra Ferreira, Paola Cristina Brandão Oliveira Sales, Anna Maria Machado, Alice de Miranda Nery, José Augusto da Costa Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| title | Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| title_full | Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| title_fullStr | Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| title_full_unstemmed | Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| title_short | Histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| title_sort | histoid leprosy: a rare exuberant case |
| topic | Images in Tropical Dermatology |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631246/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560226 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20154049 |
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