De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features

Histoid leprosy is a type of multibacillary leprosy that has unique clinical and histological characteristics. Some consider it to be an entity of its own, whereas others view it as a variant of lepromatous leprosy. Histoid leprosy can either occur 'de-novo', or secondarily in patients who...

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Autores principales: Samiey, Fatima, Aljalahma, Jawaher, Al Awadhi, Ameen
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/PMC8569650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34754702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19230
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description Histoid leprosy is a type of multibacillary leprosy that has unique clinical and histological characteristics. Some consider it to be an entity of its own, whereas others view it as a variant of lepromatous leprosy. Histoid leprosy can either occur 'de-novo', or secondarily in patients who relapse after dapsone monotherapy or in the presence of dapsone resistance. Here is a case that presented with clinical features of histoid leprosy but also with classic histologic features of lepromatous leprosy, deeming it very distinctive and unusual.
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spelling pubmed-85696502021-11-08 De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features Samiey, Fatima Aljalahma, Jawaher Al Awadhi, Ameen Cureus Dermatology Histoid leprosy is a type of multibacillary leprosy that has unique clinical and histological characteristics. Some consider it to be an entity of its own, whereas others view it as a variant of lepromatous leprosy. Histoid leprosy can either occur 'de-novo', or secondarily in patients who relapse after dapsone monotherapy or in the presence of dapsone resistance. Here is a case that presented with clinical features of histoid leprosy but also with classic histologic features of lepromatous leprosy, deeming it very distinctive and unusual. Cureus 2021-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8569650/ /pubmed/34754702 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19230 Text en Copyright © 2021, Samiey et al. https://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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Samiey, Fatima
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De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features
title De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features
title_full De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features
title_fullStr De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features
title_full_unstemmed De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features
title_short De Novo Histoid Leprosy With Unusual Histological Features
title_sort de novo histoid leprosy with unusual histological features
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8569650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34754702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19230
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