TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Neural Conduction
KW - Neurofibromatosis 1
KW - Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
KW - Schwann Cells
KW - Skin
AU - Swift T R
AB - <p>Two patients with neurofibromatosis and leprosy are reported. Both had active lepromatous leprosy and generalized neurofibromata. The bacilli appear in huge numbers within the cytoplasm of the cells making up the neurofibromata, which become distended and resemble lepra cells. Since these cells are believed to derive from Schwann cells, the findings in these patients support the idea that leprosy affects nerves initially by proliferating in Schwann cells and producing changes within them.</p>
BT - Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5003511?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1971 Dec
DO - 10.1136/jnnp.34.6.743
IS - 6
J2 - J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Two patients with neurofibromatosis and leprosy are reported. Both had active lepromatous leprosy and generalized neurofibromata. The bacilli appear in huge numbers within the cytoplasm of the cells making up the neurofibromata, which become distended and resemble lepra cells. Since these cells are believed to derive from Schwann cells, the findings in these patients support the idea that leprosy affects nerves initially by proliferating in Schwann cells and producing changes within them.</p>
PY - 1971
SP - 743
EP - 9
T2 - Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
TI - Neurofibromatosis and leprosy.
VL - 34
SN - 0022-3050
ER -