An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease with a wide range of clinical manifestations. The early diagnosis of leprosy is a worldwide challenge. We present a case of leprosy with unusual severe pruritus and generalized excoriated papules and nodules.

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Autores principales: Noormohammadpour, Pedram, Kamyab‐Hesari, Kambiz, Razavi, Zahra, Dolatyabi, Nooshin, Taghizadeh Fazli, Jafar, Daneshpazhooh, Maryam, Nouri, Zeinab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695365
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2897
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author Noormohammadpour, Pedram
Kamyab‐Hesari, Kambiz
Razavi, Zahra
Dolatyabi, Nooshin
Taghizadeh Fazli, Jafar
Daneshpazhooh, Maryam
Nouri, Zeinab
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Kamyab‐Hesari, Kambiz
Razavi, Zahra
Dolatyabi, Nooshin
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spelling pubmed-73640992020-07-20 An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis Noormohammadpour, Pedram Kamyab‐Hesari, Kambiz Razavi, Zahra Dolatyabi, Nooshin Taghizadeh Fazli, Jafar Daneshpazhooh, Maryam Nouri, Zeinab Clin Case Rep Case Reports Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease with a wide range of clinical manifestations. The early diagnosis of leprosy is a worldwide challenge. We present a case of leprosy with unusual severe pruritus and generalized excoriated papules and nodules. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7364099/ /pubmed/32695365 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2897 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Noormohammadpour, Pedram
Kamyab‐Hesari, Kambiz
Razavi, Zahra
Dolatyabi, Nooshin
Taghizadeh Fazli, Jafar
Daneshpazhooh, Maryam
Nouri, Zeinab
An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
title An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
title_full An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
title_fullStr An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
title_full_unstemmed An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
title_short An unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
title_sort unusual case of multibacillary leprosy mimicking prurigo nodularis
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32695365
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2897
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