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Laparoscopic Aspects of Lepromatous Leprosy [PDF]

Endoscopy, 1980
The authors performed laparoscopy on eight patients (six females and two males) with lepromatous leprosy. The findings show that goose flesh hepatomegaly (100% of the cases), and red or gray splenomegaly (75% of the cases) can be considered as laparoscopic hallmarks of lepromatous leprosy.
Herrerías Gutiérrez, Juan Manuel, Ariza, A., Garrido, M.   +2 more
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Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017
Leprosy is a contagious and granulomatous disease which is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The incubation period for leprosy is five to seven years and it can take as long as about 30 years before signs and symptoms of leprosy develop in some patients ...
Mayuri Jain
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Role of S-100 Immunostaining in Demonstration of Nerve Changes and Quantification of Dendritic Cells in Leprosy [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2014
Background: A definitive diagnosis of leprosy is based on a demonstration of either acid-fast bacilli or nerve elements within the granulomas. On routine hematoxylin and eosin stains, the nerve fibers are not easily identifiable. In this study, S-100
Anand Mohanraj, Sowmya Srinivasan
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Cytokine and protein markers of leprosy reactions in skin and nerves: baseline results for the North Indian INFIR cohort. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Previous studies investigating the role of cytokines in the pathogenesis of leprosy have either been on only small numbers of patients or have not combined clinical and histological data.
Lavanya Suneetha, Mohammed Ismail, Ismail Mohammed, Suneetha Lavanya, Diana N J Lockwood, Nicholls, Peter, Chaduvula Meher Vani, Smith W. C., Wim van Brakel, Diana N. J. Lockwood, Lockwood, Diana NJ, Sagili Karuna Devi, Smith, WC, Mohammed, Ismail, Suneetha, Sujai, Suneetha Sujai, van Brakel Wim, Suneetha, Lavanya, Sagili, Karuna Devi, van Brakel, Wim, Karuna Devi Sagili, Sujai Suneetha, Lockwood Diana N. J., Nicholls Peter, W. C. Smith, W C Smith, Chaduvula, Meher Vani, Peter Nicholls, Meher Vani Chaduvula   +28 more
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Double trouble: a case of von Recklinghausen’s disease with coexistent lepromatous leprosy

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Leprosy (or Hansen disease) is a tropical disease which affects the skin and nerves leading to deformities and disabilities. Von Recklinghausen's disease (neurofibromatosis 1) is a well-recognized genetic disorder with both cutaneous and systemic ...
Kaliaperumal Karthikeyan, Kaliaperumal Latchoumibady, Srinivasan Sowmya   +2 more
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Lepromatous leprosy

Dermatology Online Journal, 2008
Lepromatous leprosy is a form of chronic granulomatous disease that is caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae. Early involvement is marked by widespread, ill-defined, erythematous papules and plaques. With early intervention, leprosy is a curable disease; however, if not recognized and treated promptly, permanent sequelae and disability result ...
Mahlberg, Matthew J, Levis, William R
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Migration and leprosy in Brazil [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Leprosy is among the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), and is an endemic public health problem in high-risk clusters throughout Brazil. Leprosy is caused by the intracellular bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the skin and peripheral ...
Murto, Christine
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Colonization by Helicobacter pylori of leprosy patients in Spain: immunomodulation to low molecular weight antigens of H. pylori

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010
We studied the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in patients with leprosy and the effects of co-infection on the immune response to Helicobacter antigens in the polar groups of leprosy (lepromatous and tuberculoid).
Neluka Fernando, Pedro Torres, Dino Vaira, John Holton   +3 more
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Livedo reticularis in type 2 lepra reaction: A rare presentation

Indian Dermatology Online Journal, 2014
Type 2 lepra reaction or erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) is an immune complex syndrome that occurs mostly in lepromatous leprosy and sometimes in borderline lepromatous leprosy patients.
Kikkeri Narayanasetty Naveen, Sharatchandra Bhimrao Athanikar, Spandana Prakash Hegde, Vidisha Sharatchandra Athanikar   +3 more
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Erythema nodosum as Leprosy reaction

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2020
Purpose.To present a clinical case of leprosy exacerbation on the background of ongoing therapy. Materials and methods.A 52-year-old patient with a diagnosis of "lepromatous (cutaneous) leprosy, leprosy LL" (multi-bacterial leprosy, lepromatous form ...
Viktoria G. Semenova, Ludmila L. Makarova, Arfenya E. Karamova   +2 more
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