TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Age Distribution
KW - Child
KW - Female
KW - Hospitalization
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Nepal
KW - Prevalence
KW - Retrospective Studies
KW - Sex Distribution
AU - Burman DK
AU - Rijall A
AU - Agrawal S
AU - Agarwalla A
AU - Verma K K
AB - <p>A hospital-based retrospective study on childhood leprosy was carried out at B.R. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, covering the period April 1998-April 2002. 20 (4.45%) leprosy patients were detected in children aged 6-14 years. The male:female ratio was 4:1. History of contact was found in 10% of the patients. The commonest type of leprosy was borderline tuberculoid leprosy (550%), followed by borderline lepromatous leprosy (301%). Most of the patients had more than one lesion. Nerve involvement and grade 2 deformity were noted in 55% and 20% of the patients respectively. Slit skin smear was positive in 30% of patients.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15253394?dopt=Abstract
CN - BURMAN 2003
DA - 2003 Jan-Mar
IS - 1
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A hospital-based retrospective study on childhood leprosy was carried out at B.R. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, covering the period April 1998-April 2002. 20 (4.45%) leprosy patients were detected in children aged 6-14 years. The male:female ratio was 4:1. History of contact was found in 10% of the patients. The commonest type of leprosy was borderline tuberculoid leprosy (550%), followed by borderline lepromatous leprosy (301%). Most of the patients had more than one lesion. Nerve involvement and grade 2 deformity were noted in 55% and 20% of the patients respectively. Slit skin smear was positive in 30% of patients.</p>
PY - 2003
SP - 47
EP - 52
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Childhood leprosy in eastern Nepal: a hospital-based study.
VL - 75
SN - 0254-9395
ER -