Sixty six cases of childhood leprosy were studied in detail. They comprised of 7.2% of the Hansen's disease cases and 0.1/1000 of the total hospital out patients. Male: female ratio was 2:1. Four cases (6%) only belonged to the multibacillary group. All the multibacillary patients had a family contact of leprosy. Twelve cases (18.2%) showed nerve involvement and 2 cases (3%) had deformities also. One patient had pure neuritic type of leprosy. Leprosy reactions were not observed in any case. Out of 42 patients adequately followed up after completion of treatment, 3 patients (7.1%) had relapse of the disease.
BT - Indian journal of pediatrics C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10773932?dopt=Abstract CN - PRASAD1998 DA - 1998 Sep-Oct DO - 10.1007/bf02731059 IS - 5 J2 - Indian J Pediatr LA - eng N2 -Sixty six cases of childhood leprosy were studied in detail. They comprised of 7.2% of the Hansen's disease cases and 0.1/1000 of the total hospital out patients. Male: female ratio was 2:1. Four cases (6%) only belonged to the multibacillary group. All the multibacillary patients had a family contact of leprosy. Twelve cases (18.2%) showed nerve involvement and 2 cases (3%) had deformities also. One patient had pure neuritic type of leprosy. Leprosy reactions were not observed in any case. Out of 42 patients adequately followed up after completion of treatment, 3 patients (7.1%) had relapse of the disease.
PY - 1998 SP - 751 EP - 4 T2 - Indian journal of pediatrics TI - Childhood leprosy in a rural hospital. VL - 65 SN - 0019-5456 ER -