TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - African Americans
KW - African Continental Ancestry Group
KW - Bone Resorption
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Foot Dermatoses
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Osteolysis
KW - Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
KW - Skin Ulcer
KW - South Africa
KW - Syndrome
AU - Anderson I F
AU - Schorn D
AB - <p>The triad of a peripheral neuropathy, skin ulceration and destruction of bones and joints of the feet is called ulcero-osteolytic neuropathy, when other common causes of similar lesions have been excluded. Malnutrition, alcoholism and local trauma predispose to the development of the condition. It is to be differentiated from burnt-out leprosy, and is a chronic condition that eventually leads to characteristic deformities.</p>
BT - South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/168648?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1975 Jul 05
IS - 28
J2 - S. Afr. Med. J.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The triad of a peripheral neuropathy, skin ulceration and destruction of bones and joints of the feet is called ulcero-osteolytic neuropathy, when other common causes of similar lesions have been excluded. Malnutrition, alcoholism and local trauma predispose to the development of the condition. It is to be differentiated from burnt-out leprosy, and is a chronic condition that eventually leads to characteristic deformities.</p>
PY - 1975
SP - 1139
EP - 41
T2 - South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
TI - Sporadic ulcero-osteolytic neuropathy in Blacks. A report of two cases.
VL - 49
SN - 0256-9574
ER -