TY - JOUR KW - Biopsy KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Peripheral Nervous System Diseases KW - Skin AU - Khaw G E AB -
Neural leprosy is rare. This is a report of a 63-year-old Indian man who had long standing multiple peripheral neuropathy. The slit skin smear for acid-fast bacilli of Mycobacterium leprae was positive. The skin and nerve biopsies were normal. He was treated with rifampicin, dapsone and clofazimine.
BT - The Medical journal of Malaysia C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10968151?dopt=Abstract DA - 1998 Mar IS - 1 J2 - Med. J. Malaysia LA - eng N2 -Neural leprosy is rare. This is a report of a 63-year-old Indian man who had long standing multiple peripheral neuropathy. The slit skin smear for acid-fast bacilli of Mycobacterium leprae was positive. The skin and nerve biopsies were normal. He was treated with rifampicin, dapsone and clofazimine.
PY - 1998 SP - 114 EP - 6 T2 - The Medical journal of Malaysia TI - Neural leprosy--a case report. VL - 53 SN - 0300-5283 ER -