Histoid leprosy is a rare form of multibacillary leprosy with distinct clinical and histopathological features. It is a variant of lepromatous leprosy. It occurs in lepromatous patients, who relapse after dapsone monotherapy, in the presence of dapsone resistance or at times 'de-novo'. We describe here a case of histoid leprosy, clinically mimicking neurofibromatosis.
BT - Journal of laboratory physicians C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22219565?dopt=Abstract C2 - India CN - MURTHY 2011 CY - Mumbai DA - 2011 Jul DO - 10.4103/0974-2727.86844 IS - 2 J2 - J Lab Physicians LA - eng N2 -Histoid leprosy is a rare form of multibacillary leprosy with distinct clinical and histopathological features. It is a variant of lepromatous leprosy. It occurs in lepromatous patients, who relapse after dapsone monotherapy, in the presence of dapsone resistance or at times 'de-novo'. We describe here a case of histoid leprosy, clinically mimicking neurofibromatosis.
PB - Medknow Publications PP - Mumbai PY - 2011 SP - 110 EP - 2 T2 - Journal of laboratory physicians TI - De-novo histoid leprosy. UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249706/ VL - 3 SN - 0974-7826 ER -