We report 32 patients with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL). Twenty-two patients developed ENL before beginning chemotherapy. The recognition that ENL in the absence of chemotherapy is not an uncommon event is of importance, not simply as a fact in and of itself, but because this observation raises provocative questions when placed in the context of current ideas concerning ENL. ENL should be regarded as a manifestation of leprosy, not necessarily as a complication of its therapy.
BT - Archives of dermatology C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1106330?dopt=Abstract DA - 1975 Dec IS - 12 J2 - Arch Dermatol LA - eng N2 -We report 32 patients with erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL). Twenty-two patients developed ENL before beginning chemotherapy. The recognition that ENL in the absence of chemotherapy is not an uncommon event is of importance, not simply as a fact in and of itself, but because this observation raises provocative questions when placed in the context of current ideas concerning ENL. ENL should be regarded as a manifestation of leprosy, not necessarily as a complication of its therapy.
PY - 1975 SP - 1575 EP - 80 T2 - Archives of dermatology TI - Erythema nodosum leprosum in a general hospital. VL - 111 SN - 0003-987X ER -