TY - JOUR KW - Adult KW - Diagnosis, Differential KW - Erythema Nodosum KW - Humans KW - Leprostatic Agents KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Steroids AU - Kar H K AU - Saxena A K AU - Jain R K AU - Sharma A K AB -

A male 26 years old patient with BB type of leprosy was encountered with a typical clinical presentations of up-grading (reversal) Type 1 Lepra Reaction. These included sudden appearance of tender, erythematous nodular eruptions mimicking ENL, severe constitutional symptoms like high grade fever, malaise, vomiting, epistaxis, joint pain and tenosynovitis simulating Type 2 Lepra Reaction. To the best of our knowledge, this may be the first such case in our hand.

BT - Indian journal of leprosy C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3655433?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1987 Apr-Jun IS - 2 J2 - Indian J Lepr LA - eng N2 -

A male 26 years old patient with BB type of leprosy was encountered with a typical clinical presentations of up-grading (reversal) Type 1 Lepra Reaction. These included sudden appearance of tender, erythematous nodular eruptions mimicking ENL, severe constitutional symptoms like high grade fever, malaise, vomiting, epistaxis, joint pain and tenosynovitis simulating Type 2 Lepra Reaction. To the best of our knowledge, this may be the first such case in our hand.

PY - 1987 SP - 219 EP - 22 T2 - Indian journal of leprosy TI - Type 1 (reversal) lepra reaction in borderline leprosy with unusual clinical presentation--a case report. VL - 59 SN - 0254-9395 ER -