A simultaneous clinical and histological study in 82 new, untreated leprosy patients was undertaken using the criteria of Ridley and Jopling. The disparity between the clinical and the histological diagnosis was abundantly clear, because in only 35 patients the two conformed with each other while in others there was a shift of one step towards either the tuberculoid or the lepromatous end of the spectrum. In 18 patients from other groups of leprosy, histologic delineation had features of indeterminate leprosy.
BT - Dermatologica C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7398990?dopt=Abstract DA - 1980 DO - 10.1159/000250339 IS - 2 J2 - Dermatologica LA - eng N2 -A simultaneous clinical and histological study in 82 new, untreated leprosy patients was undertaken using the criteria of Ridley and Jopling. The disparity between the clinical and the histological diagnosis was abundantly clear, because in only 35 patients the two conformed with each other while in others there was a shift of one step towards either the tuberculoid or the lepromatous end of the spectrum. In 18 patients from other groups of leprosy, histologic delineation had features of indeterminate leprosy.
PY - 1980 SP - 93 EP - 6 T2 - Dermatologica TI - Application of clinical and histopathological classification of leprosy. VL - 161 SN - 0011-9075 ER -