@article{17115, keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Child, Child, Preschool, Data Collection, Female, Humans, India, Infant, Infant, Newborn, leprosy, Male, Mental Recall, Middle Aged}, author = {Guha P K and Pandey S S and Singh G and Kaur P}, title = {Age of onset of leprosy.}, abstract = {

Age of onset of leprosy is merely a subjective information based upon the memory, intelligent appreciation and awareness of the patient and his relatives, in absence of a more reliable method. In the present study, a modification of the conventional method which we named "Complemented recall" method was adopted to determine the age of onset of 400 leprosy patients, in an attempt to collect a better approximate data.

}, year = {1981}, journal = {Leprosy in India}, volume = {53}, pages = {83-7}, month = {1981 Jan}, issn = {0024-1024}, language = {eng}, }