A 32-year-old fisherman suffering from lepromatous leprosy presented with fever, joint pains, bullous lesions, and multiple well-defined ulcers on the extremities and back of 10-days duration. The bullae ruptured to form ulcers of varying sizes with well-defined margins and necrotic bases. A few of the ulcers had black crusts resembling eschars. An immunofluorescence study ruled out autoimmune bullous disease. Histopathology of a lesion showed features of erythema nodosum leprosum.
BT - Dermatology online journal C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16638426?dopt=Abstract DA - 2006 Mar 30 IS - 3 J2 - Dermatol. Online J. LA - eng N2 -A 32-year-old fisherman suffering from lepromatous leprosy presented with fever, joint pains, bullous lesions, and multiple well-defined ulcers on the extremities and back of 10-days duration. The bullae ruptured to form ulcers of varying sizes with well-defined margins and necrotic bases. A few of the ulcers had black crusts resembling eschars. An immunofluorescence study ruled out autoimmune bullous disease. Histopathology of a lesion showed features of erythema nodosum leprosum.
PY - 2006 EP - 12 T2 - Dermatology online journal TI - Necrotic erythema nodosum leprosum. UR - http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mm3r7h9 VL - 12 SN - 1087-2108 ER -