Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report

Macrocheilia, as an initial manifestation of leprosy, is uncommon. We present a case of a 50‐year‐old female, with lower lip swelling, initially diagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher. Unresponsiveness to local intralesional corticosteroids necessitated further evaluation. Repeat tissue sampl...

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Autores principales: Sitaula, Seema, Mishra, Aman, Chalise, Sanat, Mishra, Aakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9361795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35957798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6240
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author Sitaula, Seema
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description Macrocheilia, as an initial manifestation of leprosy, is uncommon. We present a case of a 50‐year‐old female, with lower lip swelling, initially diagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher. Unresponsiveness to local intralesional corticosteroids necessitated further evaluation. Repeat tissue sampling yielded a confirmatory diagnosis of borderline tuberculoid leprosy, which was managed successfully.
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spelling pubmed-93617952022-08-10 Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report Sitaula, Seema Mishra, Aman Chalise, Sanat Mishra, Aakash Clin Case Rep Case Reports Macrocheilia, as an initial manifestation of leprosy, is uncommon. We present a case of a 50‐year‐old female, with lower lip swelling, initially diagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher. Unresponsiveness to local intralesional corticosteroids necessitated further evaluation. Repeat tissue sampling yielded a confirmatory diagnosis of borderline tuberculoid leprosy, which was managed successfully. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9361795/ /pubmed/35957798 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6240 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report
title Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report
title_full Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report
title_fullStr Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report
title_short Borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as Cheilitis Granulomatosa Miescher: A case report
title_sort borderline tuberculoid leprosy misdiagnosed as cheilitis granulomatosa miescher: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9361795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35957798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.6240
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