Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States

Peripheral neuropathy can be the initial presentation of leprosy. Diagnosis can be challenging unless skin manifestations are recognized. Skin biopsy and Fite staining are the keys to the diagnosis. It is important to treat coexisting Lepra reactions, peripheral neuropathy and side effects of the th...

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Autores principales: Oo, Ye Min, Paez, Armando, Brown, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00765
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description Peripheral neuropathy can be the initial presentation of leprosy. Diagnosis can be challenging unless skin manifestations are recognized. Skin biopsy and Fite staining are the keys to the diagnosis. It is important to treat coexisting Lepra reactions, peripheral neuropathy and side effects of the therapeutic agents. This is a complex clinical course of a patient with lepromatous leprosy.
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spelling pubmed-72007902020-05-07 Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States Oo, Ye Min Paez, Armando Brown, Richard IDCases Article Peripheral neuropathy can be the initial presentation of leprosy. Diagnosis can be challenging unless skin manifestations are recognized. Skin biopsy and Fite staining are the keys to the diagnosis. It is important to treat coexisting Lepra reactions, peripheral neuropathy and side effects of the therapeutic agents. This is a complex clinical course of a patient with lepromatous leprosy. Elsevier 2020-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7200790/ /pubmed/32382502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00765 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States
title Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States
title_full Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States
title_fullStr Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States
title_full_unstemmed Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States
title_short Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States
title_sort leprosy: a rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the united states
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00765
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