Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure

Leprosy, a relatively common chronic contagious disease having diverse modes of clinical presentation, can mimic a variety of unrelated diseases. For proper and adequate treatment, the diagnosis must be made accurately with subtyping which should be done with the help of bacillary index, histopathol...

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Autores principales: Premalatha, P, Renuka, IV, Meghana, A, Devi, SI, Charyulu, PAVK, Sampoorna, G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27398251
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.183936
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author Premalatha, P
Renuka, IV
Meghana, A
Devi, SI
Charyulu, PAVK
Sampoorna, G
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description Leprosy, a relatively common chronic contagious disease having diverse modes of clinical presentation, can mimic a variety of unrelated diseases. For proper and adequate treatment, the diagnosis must be made accurately with subtyping which should be done with the help of bacillary index, histopathological features, and clinical correlation. This is extremely important in patient care as paucibacillary and multibacillary types have different modes of treatment. Our aim is to categorize leprosy into various types based on bacillary index, morphological findings both in slit skin smears, and biopsy along with clinical correlation.
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spelling pubmed-49244932016-07-08 Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure Premalatha, P Renuka, IV Meghana, A Devi, SI Charyulu, PAVK Sampoorna, G Ann Med Health Sci Res Short Communication Leprosy, a relatively common chronic contagious disease having diverse modes of clinical presentation, can mimic a variety of unrelated diseases. For proper and adequate treatment, the diagnosis must be made accurately with subtyping which should be done with the help of bacillary index, histopathological features, and clinical correlation. This is extremely important in patient care as paucibacillary and multibacillary types have different modes of treatment. Our aim is to categorize leprosy into various types based on bacillary index, morphological findings both in slit skin smears, and biopsy along with clinical correlation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4924493/ /pubmed/27398251 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.183936 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Medical and Health Sciences Research 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Short Communication
Premalatha, P
Renuka, IV
Meghana, A
Devi, SI
Charyulu, PAVK
Sampoorna, G
Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure
title Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure
title_full Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure
title_fullStr Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure
title_full_unstemmed Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure
title_short Utility of Bacillary Index in Slit Skin Smears in Correlation with Clinical and Histopathological Alterations in Hansen's Disease: An Attempt to Revive a Simple Useful Procedure
title_sort utility of bacillary index in slit skin smears in correlation with clinical and histopathological alterations in hansen's disease: an attempt to revive a simple useful procedure
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27398251
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2141-9248.183936
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