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
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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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author Neto, Francisco Bezerra de Almeida
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description 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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spelling pubmed-65896242019-07-05 The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve Neto, Francisco Bezerra de Almeida Neto, Raul Aureliano Cardoso, Lucas Machado Carvalho Neurol Int Case Report 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. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2019-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC6589624/ /pubmed/31281601 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001 Text en ©Copyright F.B. de Almeida Neto et al., 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
title The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
title_full The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
title_fullStr The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
title_full_unstemmed The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
title_short The first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
title_sort first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589624/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2019.8001
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