TY - JOUR
KW - Palatal perforation
KW - Oral lesions
KW - Oral Hygiene
KW - leprosy
AU - Jain S
AB - Lepromatous leprosy is a multisystem disease that develops in individuals with decreased cell mediated immune response against mycobacterium leprae. Lepromatous leprosy with palatal perforation is a rare presentation and if the patient is left untreated, it causes massive multiplication of Mycobacteria leprae that infiltrate the skin, nerves, eyes, upper respiratory tract, reticuloendothelial system, testes, adrenals, oral cavity and other viscera. We hereby report this case in a female suffering from lepromatous leprosy with complications of palatal perforation and lost central incisor teeth simultaneously.
BT - Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal
IS - 1
LA - eng
N2 - Lepromatous leprosy is a multisystem disease that develops in individuals with decreased cell mediated immune response against mycobacterium leprae. Lepromatous leprosy with palatal perforation is a rare presentation and if the patient is left untreated, it causes massive multiplication of Mycobacteria leprae that infiltrate the skin, nerves, eyes, upper respiratory tract, reticuloendothelial system, testes, adrenals, oral cavity and other viscera. We hereby report this case in a female suffering from lepromatous leprosy with complications of palatal perforation and lost central incisor teeth simultaneously.
PY - 2014
T2 - Egyptian Dermatology Online Journal
TI - Lepromatous leprosy with palatal perforation: A rare presentation
UR - http://www.edoj.org.eg/vol010/0101/008/paper.pdf
VL - 10
ER -