TY - JOUR KW - Adult KW - Biopsy KW - Erythema Nodosum KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Skin AU - Job C K AU - Jacobson R R AU - Hastings R C AB -

A case of lepromatous leprosy with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) undergoing treatment with dapsone, rifampin, and thalidomide developed focal tuberculoid granulomas in the ENL lesions. This is the first report known to the authors of a lepromatous leprosy patient in whom ENL and an upgrading reaction occurred simultaneously.

BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3418207?dopt=Abstract DA - 1988 Sep IS - 3 J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis. LA - eng N2 -

A case of lepromatous leprosy with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL) undergoing treatment with dapsone, rifampin, and thalidomide developed focal tuberculoid granulomas in the ENL lesions. This is the first report known to the authors of a lepromatous leprosy patient in whom ENL and an upgrading reaction occurred simultaneously.

PY - 1988 SP - 437 EP - 42 T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association TI - Simultaneous upgrading reaction and erythema nodosum leprosum in a patient with lepromatous leprosy. VL - 56 SN - 0148-916X ER -