Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Leprosy is an infectious disease that is associated with various types of presentations. Diagnosis of the disease can be tricky in cases of atypical presentations. We report a unique case of leprosy characterized by chronic hand swelling, dactylitis, and seropositive laboratory markers, which was di...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Sonia, Li, Changzhao, Thallapally, Vinay Kumar, Sharma, Poonam, Nahas, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7983738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767935
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13451
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author Gupta, Sonia
Li, Changzhao
Thallapally, Vinay Kumar
Sharma, Poonam
Nahas, Joseph
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description Leprosy is an infectious disease that is associated with various types of presentations. Diagnosis of the disease can be tricky in cases of atypical presentations. We report a unique case of leprosy characterized by chronic hand swelling, dactylitis, and seropositive laboratory markers, which was diagnosed in a rheumatology clinic.
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spelling pubmed-79837382021-03-24 Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Gupta, Sonia Li, Changzhao Thallapally, Vinay Kumar Sharma, Poonam Nahas, Joseph Cureus Dermatology Leprosy is an infectious disease that is associated with various types of presentations. Diagnosis of the disease can be tricky in cases of atypical presentations. We report a unique case of leprosy characterized by chronic hand swelling, dactylitis, and seropositive laboratory markers, which was diagnosed in a rheumatology clinic. Cureus 2021-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7983738/ /pubmed/33767935 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13451 Text en Copyright © 2021, Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Chronic Hand Swelling and Dactylitis in Leprosy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort chronic hand swelling and dactylitis in leprosy: a case report and review of the literature
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7983738/
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