@article{1328,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Dapsone, Humans, India, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Military Medicine, Retrospective Studies},
  author = {Tiwari V D and Mehta R P},
  title = {Deformities in leprosy patients of Indian armed forces treated/reviewed at Military Hospital Agra (a retrospective study).},
  abstract = {<p>Records of 809 cases of leprosy in the armed forces personnel treated at Military Hospital. Agra were reviewed to study deformities in relation to certain variables. Deformity rate was 9.13% only 1.5% cases developed deformity while on DDS treatment. Deformity rate increased with increasing age. Though lepromatous, borderline and polyneuritic types were more prone to develop deformities, on treatment tuberculoid type developed more deformities. Reaction precipitated deformity in 6.75% of the deformed.</p>},
  year = {1981},
  journal = {Leprosy in India},
  volume = {53},
  pages = {369-78},
  month = {1981 Jul},
  issn = {0024-1024},
  language = {eng},
}