Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the number of leprosy patients in The Netherlands, due to an increased immigration from Surinam where leprosy is hyperendemic. The patients registered at the Dermatological Department of the University of Amsterdam during the years 1972-1976 were reviewed. It was found that 28% of the untreated patients had recently suffered a relapse. A substantial percentage took the medication irregularly or discontinued treatment prematurely and quite a few patients required other types of treatment besides chemotherapy, such as surgical treatment and physiotherapy.
BT - Dermatologica C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/761690?dopt=Abstract DA - 1979 IS - 1 J2 - Dermatologica LA - eng N2 -Recently, there has been a sharp increase in the number of leprosy patients in The Netherlands, due to an increased immigration from Surinam where leprosy is hyperendemic. The patients registered at the Dermatological Department of the University of Amsterdam during the years 1972-1976 were reviewed. It was found that 28% of the untreated patients had recently suffered a relapse. A substantial percentage took the medication irregularly or discontinued treatment prematurely and quite a few patients required other types of treatment besides chemotherapy, such as surgical treatment and physiotherapy.
PY - 1979 SP - 38 EP - 45 T2 - Dermatologica TI - Leprosy in the Netherlands. A review of leprosy patients registered at the Department of Dermatology, University of Amsterdam in the years 1972-1976. VL - 158 SN - 0011-9075 ER -