The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve

We describe the case of a young man, 22 years old, a household contact of leprosy, presenting paresthesia in the right leg and great thickening in the anterior femoral nerve and in the ipsilateral sural nerve. There were no typical dermatological lesions of leprosy. Ultrasonography confirmed the cli...

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Autores principales: Neto, Francisco Bezerra de Almeida, Neto, Raul Aureliano, Cardoso, Lucas Machado Carvalho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589624/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31281601
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001
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Sumario:We describe the case of a young man, 22 years old, a household contact of leprosy, presenting paresthesia in the right leg and great thickening in the anterior femoral nerve and in the ipsilateral sural nerve. There were no typical dermatological lesions of leprosy. Ultrasonography confirmed the clinical finding. The clinical diagnosis of the disease was established and the patient started multibacillary-multidrug therapy, obtaining improvement of the initial symptomatology.

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