TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Age Factors
KW - Analysis of Variance
KW - Case-Control Studies
KW - Cornea
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Myelin Sheath
KW - Sex Factors
AU - Daniel E
AU - David A
AU - Rao P S
AB - <p>Unmyelinated corneal nerves were counted in 383 leprosy patients whose eyes looked normal on clinical examination and in an equal number of healthy controls. Visibility of these nerves was decreased significantly (p &lt; 0.01) in the nasal half of the cornea in both patients and controls. There was a significant (p &lt; 0.01) inverse correlation between age and the visibility of these nerves in patients and controls. There was a significant (p &lt; 0.05) reduction in the visibility of these nerves as the spectrum of the disease moved from the tuberculoid to the lepromatous pole. There was no significant correlation between visibility of these nerves and the smear positivity of the patient. Neither did duration of the disease nor the duration of antileprosy treatment alter the visibility of these nerves significantly. Overall, there was a reduction in the visibility of these nerves in patients who had had leprosy reactions.</p>

BT - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
C1 - <p>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7963909?dopt=Abstract</p>

DA - 1994 Sep
IS - 3
J2 - Int. J. Lepr. Other Mycobact. Dis.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Unmyelinated corneal nerves were counted in 383 leprosy patients whose eyes looked normal on clinical examination and in an equal number of healthy controls. Visibility of these nerves was decreased significantly (p &lt; 0.01) in the nasal half of the cornea in both patients and controls. There was a significant (p &lt; 0.01) inverse correlation between age and the visibility of these nerves in patients and controls. There was a significant (p &lt; 0.05) reduction in the visibility of these nerves as the spectrum of the disease moved from the tuberculoid to the lepromatous pole. There was no significant correlation between visibility of these nerves and the smear positivity of the patient. Neither did duration of the disease nor the duration of antileprosy treatment alter the visibility of these nerves significantly. Overall, there was a reduction in the visibility of these nerves in patients who had had leprosy reactions.</p>

PY - 1994
SP - 374
EP - 9
T2 - International journal of leprosy and other mycobacterial diseases : official organ of the International Leprosy Association
TI - Quantitative assessment of the visibility of unmyelinated corneal nerves in leprosy.
UR - http://ila.ilsl.br/pdfs/v62n3a05.pdf
VL - 62
SN - 0148-916X
ER -