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Lucio’s Phenomenon

2012
Lucio’s phenomenon (LPh) or erythema necroticans is the acute reaction that develops in patients with diffuse lepromatous leprosy or pure and primitive leprosy or lazarine leprosy or Lucio–Latapi leprosy, which is a systemic and peculiar form of leprosy, a polar lepromatous type of the disease in which the patient has no response to lepromin skin test,
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Lucio leprosy with lucio phenomenon.

Indian journal of leprosy, 2002
Leprosy is one of the commonly seen disease in any dermatology outpatient department in our country. India accounts for a major portion of the leprosy patients in the world. All types of the disease, such as tuberculoid, borderline, lepromatous, neuritic and indeterminate leprosy, are seen. However, "lucio leprosy" which is considered a special type of
V, Saoji, A, Salodkar
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Plasma Exchange Therapy in Lucio's Phenomenon

Archives of Dermatology, 1980
To the Editor.— The article by Pursley et al 1 about Lucio's phenomenon prompts us to report a similar case and to stress the benefits of plasma exchange in the management of severe type 2 reactional states in leprosy. Report of a Case.— A 76-year-old man who had just returned from Vietnam was referred to us because of poor general health and the ...
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[Lucio phenomenon. Vasculitis or occlusive vasculopathy?].

Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete, 2007
Lucio's phenomenon (LP) occurs in patients with Lucio leprosy (LuL). Some interpret the cutaneous lesions and their histopathology as a thrombotic/occlusive condition, while others consider it leukocytoclastic vasculitis. The clinical similarities between the cutaneous manifestations of LP and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) led us to investigate the ...
L, Azulay-Abulafia   +6 more
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Lucio's phenomenon: a comparative histological study.

International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association, 1979
To study further the pathogenesis of Lucio's phenomenon, we have made a comparative histological study of 11 patients with Lucio's phenomenon and 12 with ENL. Confirming the findings of others, Lucio's reaction could be distinguished from ENL by epidermal necrosis and by necrotizing vasculitis manifesting necrosis in the walls of superficial vessels ...
T H, Rea, D S, Ridley
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Lucio's Leprosy and Lucio's Phenomenon: The Man Behind the Eponymous

The American Journal of Dermatopathology
Abstract: Rafael Lucio was a Mexican physician, scientist, and professor of medicine, became interested in studying medicine at the Establishment of Medical Sciences in Mexico City in 1838; obtained his degree when he was 23 years old and started teaching at that School of Medicine, and he became famous for his commitment and enforcement and ...
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Lucio's phenomenon: clinical and therapeutic aspects.

International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association, 2001
We report four cases of necrotizing reactions of the Lucio's phenomenon type, an entity rarely observed in Brazil despite the high prevalence of leprosy. Clinical, histopathological and therapeutic aspects are described and compared to those reported in the literature for cases classified as diffuse, non-nodular lepromatous leprosy with Lucio's ...
C S, Souza   +3 more
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Lucio's Phenomenon and Diffuse Nonnodular Lepromatous Leprosy

Archives of Dermatology, 1978
• The records of ten patients with Lucio's phenomenon showed clinical and histopathological changes similar to those described by others. Lucio's phenomenon is a syndrome distinct from erythema nodosum leprosum as indicated by an absence of fever, leukocytosis and tenderness, a failure to respond to thalidomide, and a restriction to patients with ...
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Lepromatous leprosy with Lucio's phenomenon

Australasian Journal of Dermatology, 2017
Yan‐Fei Wang, Ping Wang, Hui Huang
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