TY - JOUR
KW - Aged
KW - Arthropathy, Neurogenic
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Disease Progression
KW - Electromyography
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
AU - Rostom S
AU - Bahiri R
AU - Mahfoud-Filali S
AU - Hajjaj-Hassouni N
AB - <p>According to World Health Organization (WHO), the global registered prevalence of leprosy at the beginning of 2006 stood at 219,826 cases. Pockets of high endemicity still remain in some areas of Africa, India, and Brazil. One of the joint manifestations of leprosy are the signs of Charcot's disease. Charcot's disease of leprosy advanced in spite of the treatment. The different clinical types are sometimes a problem in diagnosis. We report herein two cases.</p>
BT - Clinical rheumatology
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17541499?dopt=Abstract
CN - ROSTOM 2007
DA - 2007 Dec
DO - 10.1007/s10067-007-0629-7
IS - 12
J2 - Clin. Rheumatol.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>According to World Health Organization (WHO), the global registered prevalence of leprosy at the beginning of 2006 stood at 219,826 cases. Pockets of high endemicity still remain in some areas of Africa, India, and Brazil. One of the joint manifestations of leprosy are the signs of Charcot's disease. Charcot's disease of leprosy advanced in spite of the treatment. The different clinical types are sometimes a problem in diagnosis. We report herein two cases.</p>
PY - 2007
SP - 2153
EP - 2155
T2 - Clinical rheumatology
TI - Neurogenic osteoarthropathy in leprosy.
VL - 26
SN - 0770-3198
ER -