@article{15997,
  keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Blindness, Conjunctival Diseases, Corneal Diseases, Eye diseases, Eyebrows, Eyelid Diseases, Female, Humans, India, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Time Factors, Uveal Diseases},
  author = {Prasad V N and Narain M and Mukhija R D and Bist H K and Khan M M},
  title = {A study of ocular complications in leprosy.},
  abstract = {<p>A total of 380 leprosy patients were studied in four different leprosy hospitals. The involvement of eye was found in 18.95% of cases in which 10.97% in lepromatous leprosy and 8.16% in non-lepromatous leprosy cases. In total cases studied 52.63% were of lepromatous leprosy and 47.37% of non lepromatous leprosy cases. Among them 11.05% were males and 18.95% were females. In 72 cases of ocular involvement, males constituted 80.56% and females 19.44% of cases. Maximum cases (52.78%) of ocular involvement were in leprosy patient with 5 to 10 years of duration. Blindness among the total leprosy patients studied was 1.84% which was mainly due to corneal opacity following exposure keratitis and ulceration, iridocyclitis and its complications.</p>},
  year = {1984},
  journal = {Indian journal of leprosy},
  volume = {56},
  pages = {241-50},
  month = {1984 Apr-Jun},
  issn = {0254-9395},
  language = {eng},
}