Unusual Presentation of Multibacillary Nodular Leprosy

Despite India achieving the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem, leprosy is still being transmitted in India. However, due to decreased clinical suspicion of leprosy and atypical case presentations, such cases may be not be diagnosed. We present a case report of an unusual pres...

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Autores principales: Raut, Shweta, Kanade, Swapna, Nataraj, Gita, Mehta, Preeti
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5015501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28042219
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.187919
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description Despite India achieving the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem, leprosy is still being transmitted in India. However, due to decreased clinical suspicion of leprosy and atypical case presentations, such cases may be not be diagnosed. We present a case report of an unusual presentation of multibacillary leprosy which presented as nodular lesions. This case report indicates that atypical presentations of leprosy may be missed out by primary care physicians.
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spelling pubmed-50155012017-01-01 Unusual Presentation of Multibacillary Nodular Leprosy Raut, Shweta Kanade, Swapna Nataraj, Gita Mehta, Preeti J Lab Physicians Case Report Despite India achieving the goal of elimination of leprosy as a public health problem, leprosy is still being transmitted in India. However, due to decreased clinical suspicion of leprosy and atypical case presentations, such cases may be not be diagnosed. We present a case report of an unusual presentation of multibacillary leprosy which presented as nodular lesions. This case report indicates that atypical presentations of leprosy may be missed out by primary care physicians. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5015501/ /pubmed/28042219 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.187919 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-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.
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