00946nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001100001300042700001200055700001600067245010400083856007800187300000900265490000700274520049300281022001400774       2019                            d1 aNeto FBA1 aNeto RA1 aCardoso LMC00aThe first report of pure neuritic leprosy with involvement of the anterior femoral cutaneous nerve.  uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589624/pdf/ni-11-2-8001.pdf  a80010 v113 a<p>We describe the case of a young man, 22 years old, a household contact of leprosy, presenting paresthesia in the right leg and great thickening in the anterior femoral nerve and in the ipsilateral sural nerve. There were no typical dermatological lesions of leprosy. Ultrasonography confirmed the clinical finding. The clinical diagnosis of the disease was established and the patient started multibacillary-multidrug therapy, obtaining improvement of the initial symptomatology.</p>
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