@article{22337,
  keywords = {Adult, Aged, Early Diagnosis, Humans, Leprostatic Agents, Leprosy, Borderline, Male, Recurrence, Skin, Skin Diseases, Bacterial},
  author = {Brandão MLFB and Lima CMO and Piñeiro-Maceira J and Miranda A and Oliveira LM W},
  title = {Early diagnosis of relapse in borderline leprosy: two case reports.},
  abstract = {<p>Two cases of relapse in borderline leprosy were reported. Despite the late-reversal, reaction-like feature, the suspicion of relapse in both was based on persistent and slow-developing skin lesions and an absence of acute neuritis or reaction during one year of follow-up. The authors have considered this possible occurrence in lepromatous borderline-treated patients after their immune cellular restoration and defend that not all Type 1 reactions would be an inflammatory answer to persistent Mycobacterium leprae, but that they could be. Therefore, a relapse diagnosis could be applied and it is more advisable, as one year of Multi-Drug Therapy (MDT) is less dangerous and more efficient for these cases than one year of corticosteroids.</p>},
  year = {2011},
  journal = {Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo},
  volume = {53},
  pages = {341-3},
  month = {2011 Nov-Dec},
  publisher = {Scielo},
  address = {Sao Paulo},
  issn = {1678-9946},
  url = {http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652011000600008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en},
  doi = {10.1590/s0036-46652011000600008},
  language = {eng},
}