TY - JOUR
KW - Anti-Inflammatory Agents
KW - Arthralgia
KW - Fever
KW - Humans
KW - Leprostatic Agents
KW - Leprosy, Multibacillary
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Prednisolone
AU - Vinod K V
AU - Chandramohan R
AU - Dutta T K
AU - Rajesh N G
AU - Basu D
AB - <p>Leprosy, a commonly encountered disease, can rarely present as a reactional state de novo with fever as the main presenting feature. Here we describe an uncommon presentation of leprosy [with type 2 lepra reaction] as pyrexia of unknown origin with prominent rheumatologic manifestations [acute polyarthritis], renal involvement and generalized lymphadenopathy with rare presentation of type 2 lepra reaction without the classic skin lesions of erythema nodosum leprosum, occurring in a treatment naive patient without prior history of leprosy.</p>
BT - The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23029751?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2012 Apr
J2 - J Assoc Physicians India
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Leprosy, a commonly encountered disease, can rarely present as a reactional state de novo with fever as the main presenting feature. Here we describe an uncommon presentation of leprosy [with type 2 lepra reaction] as pyrexia of unknown origin with prominent rheumatologic manifestations [acute polyarthritis], renal involvement and generalized lymphadenopathy with rare presentation of type 2 lepra reaction without the classic skin lesions of erythema nodosum leprosum, occurring in a treatment naive patient without prior history of leprosy.</p>
PY - 2012
SP - 70
EP - 2
T2 - The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India
TI - Type 2 lepra reaction as a cause of pyrexia of unknown origin.
VL - 60
SN - 0004-5772
ER -