TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Aged
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Female
KW - Follow-Up Studies
KW - Humans
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - leprosy
KW - Leprosy, Borderline
KW - Leprosy, lepromatous
KW - Leprosy, Tuberculoid
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Time Factors
AU - López-Vélez R
AU - Sáez Vaquero T
AU - Blanco Arévalo J L
AU - Gómez Mampaso E
AB - <p>The low current prevalence of leprosy in Spain together with the diversity of its clinical expression make the detection of this disease difficult. Three native and three imported cases are here reported. Different specialists mistook this disease for other entities: familial polyneuropathy, autoimmune disease, tuberculosis, cutaneous mycosis, and cutaneous sarcoidosis. Lepra is a very polymorphic disease and its diagnosis is based on finding cutaneous hypoesthesic lesions, neural thickening and presence of acid-fast bacilli (in cutaneous specimens or nasal exudates).</p>
BT - Revista clinica espanola
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10432812?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1999 Jun
IS - 6
J2 - Rev Clin Esp
LA - spa
N2 - <p>The low current prevalence of leprosy in Spain together with the diversity of its clinical expression make the detection of this disease difficult. Three native and three imported cases are here reported. Different specialists mistook this disease for other entities: familial polyneuropathy, autoimmune disease, tuberculosis, cutaneous mycosis, and cutaneous sarcoidosis. Lepra is a very polymorphic disease and its diagnosis is based on finding cutaneous hypoesthesic lesions, neural thickening and presence of acid-fast bacilli (in cutaneous specimens or nasal exudates).</p>
PY - 1999
SP - 369
EP - 72
T2 - Revista clinica espanola
TI - [Leprosy simulating other diseases].
VL - 199
SN - 0014-2565
ER -