Twenty leprosy patients in the reactive phase of the disease were studied clinically and histologically for evidence of reactive lesions in the nasal mucosa. Ten of 14 patients with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) showed characteristic polymorphonuclear leukocytic infiltration and two patients showed vasculitis. The histological changes of reversal reactions in the nasal mucosa, one with upgrading reaction and the other with downgrading reaction, are reported.
BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3221111?dopt=Abstract DA - 1988 Dec IS - 4 J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis. LA - eng N2 -Twenty leprosy patients in the reactive phase of the disease were studied clinically and histologically for evidence of reactive lesions in the nasal mucosa. Ten of 14 patients with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) showed characteristic polymorphonuclear leukocytic infiltration and two patients showed vasculitis. The histological changes of reversal reactions in the nasal mucosa, one with upgrading reaction and the other with downgrading reaction, are reported.
PY - 1988 SP - 523 EP - 6 T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association TI - Reactional states in the nasal mucosa: a clinical and histopathological study. VL - 56 SN - 0148-916X ER -