Leprosy, a chronic granulomatous disease, has been known since ages but even today continues to baffle the clinicians with a wide spectrum of clinical, histopathological, and immunological characteristics. Leprosy reactions are mainly of two types, namely, Type 1 and Type 2. In Type 1 leprosy reaction, the preexisting lesions become erythematous, edematous, and rarely ulcerate. Ulcerating Type 1 reaction is called lazarine leprosy. Ulcerations may occur in borderline tuberculoid (BT) pole or borderline lepromatous pole but more common in BT pole. In this postelimination era of leprosy, we report an interesting case report of BT Hansen's disease with Type 1 lepra reaction with ulceration, namely, lazarine leprosy.
BT - International journal of mycobacteriology C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32862172 DA - 01/2020 DO - 10.4103/ijmy.ijmy_104_20 IS - 3 J2 - Int J Mycobacteriol LA - eng N2 -Leprosy, a chronic granulomatous disease, has been known since ages but even today continues to baffle the clinicians with a wide spectrum of clinical, histopathological, and immunological characteristics. Leprosy reactions are mainly of two types, namely, Type 1 and Type 2. In Type 1 leprosy reaction, the preexisting lesions become erythematous, edematous, and rarely ulcerate. Ulcerating Type 1 reaction is called lazarine leprosy. Ulcerations may occur in borderline tuberculoid (BT) pole or borderline lepromatous pole but more common in BT pole. In this postelimination era of leprosy, we report an interesting case report of BT Hansen's disease with Type 1 lepra reaction with ulceration, namely, lazarine leprosy.
PY - 2020 SP - 329 EP - 331 T2 - International journal of mycobacteriology TI - Lazarine leprosy: A unique phenomenon of leprosy. UR - https://www.ijmyco.org/temp/IntJMycobacteriol93329-363762_100616.pdf VL - 9 SN - 2212-554X ER -