TY - JOUR
KW - Collagen
KW - Disease
KW - Fever
KW - leprosy
KW - Literature
KW - Mycobacterium
KW - Neuropathy
KW - Peroneal Nerve
KW - Treatment
AU - Agadi J
AU - Mahadevan A
AU - Gayathri N
AU - Shankar S
AB - Muscle involvement in leprosy is rare, but not unknown. We report an interesting case of a 59 year old gentleman who presented with icthyosis, arthralgias, fever and peripheral neuropathy, mimicking a collagen vascular disease. Histological evaluation of superficial peroneal nerve and peroneus brevis revealed unusual dual involvement by Hansen's disease, with numerous lepra bacilli in both. Involvement of skeletal muscle by Mycobacterium is very rare. The clinical presentation and treatment details of the case with a brief review of literature, is presented
BT - Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
DA - 2006///
IS - 2
LA - eng
N2 - Muscle involvement in leprosy is rare, but not unknown. We report an interesting case of a 59 year old gentleman who presented with icthyosis, arthralgias, fever and peripheral neuropathy, mimicking a collagen vascular disease. Histological evaluation of superficial peroneal nerve and peroneus brevis revealed unusual dual involvement by Hansen's disease, with numerous lepra bacilli in both. Involvement of skeletal muscle by Mycobacterium is very rare. The clinical presentation and treatment details of the case with a brief review of literature, is presented
PY - 2006
SP - 119 
EP -  121
T2 - Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
TI - Neuromyositis in Hansen's disease
VL - 9
ER -