TY - JOUR
KW - Infectious peripheral neuropathy
KW - Lepra reaction
KW - Leprosy/Hansen’s disease
KW - Lucio’s phenomenon
KW - Mycobacterium leprae
KW - Mycobacterium lepromatosis
AU - Oo Y
AU - Paez A
AU - Brown R
AB - Peripheral neuropathy can be the initial presentation of leprosy. Diagnosis can be challenging unless skin manifestations are recognized. Skin biopsy and Fite staining are the keys to the diagnosis. It is important to treat coexisting Lepra reactions, peripheral neuropathy and side effects of the therapeutic agents. This is a complex clinical course of a patient with lepromatous leprosy.
BT - IDCases
C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32382502
DA - 01/2020
DO - 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00765
IS - 14
J2 - IDCases
LA - eng
N2 - Peripheral neuropathy can be the initial presentation of leprosy. Diagnosis can be challenging unless skin manifestations are recognized. Skin biopsy and Fite staining are the keys to the diagnosis. It is important to treat coexisting Lepra reactions, peripheral neuropathy and side effects of the therapeutic agents. This is a complex clinical course of a patient with lepromatous leprosy.
PY - 2020
EP - e00765
T2 - IDCases
TI - Leprosy: A rare case of infectious peripheral neuropathy in the United States.
VL - 20
SN - 2214-2509
ER -