DERMAL NEUROMA SIMULATING LEPROSY
作者:
A. C. McDOUGALL,
期刊:
International Journal of Dermatology
(WILEY Available online 1979)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 1
页码: 46-49
ISSN:0011-9059
年代: 1979
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-4362.1979.tb01911.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT:A 45‐year‐old Pakistani woman reported to a clinic in Karachi with a one‐year history of hypopigmented lesions on the left side of the face and neck. On first presentation the lesions were rough‐surfaced and hypoaesthetic; the clinical findings in this highly endemic area of the world suggested macular tuberculoid leprosy. The patient was treated with dapsone for a period of 5 years, but with no change in the appearance or size of the lesions. Subsequent biopsies revealed an unusual neuromatoid pathology in the dermis, in which axons were absent on light and electron microscopy, with neurilemmoma being considered as a possible di
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