TY - JOUR
KW - Dermatology
AU - Bezerra NTC
AU - Schettini APM
AU - Leturiondo AL
AU - Mathias LHMT
AB - Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae and, depending on the host immune status, presents different clinical forms. This report describes the case of a 46-year-old man who had hypoesthetic lesions in the infrahyoid region for 30 days. The bacilloscopy was negative. The anatomopathological examination showed alterations corresponding to the tuberculoid pole (epithelioid histiocytes) and virchowian pole (foamy histiocytes), compatible with borderlinevirchowian leprosy (Ridley and Jopling classification). Rapid tests for HIV I, II, and syphilis were positive, with a CD4 count of 223. The patient started treatment with multibacillary multidrug therapy, antiretroviral therapy, and benzathine penicillin, with marked clinical improvement in two months.
BT - Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
DO - 10.1016/j.abd.2020.03.022
LA - eng
N2 - Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae and, depending on the host immune status, presents different clinical forms. This report describes the case of a 46-year-old man who had hypoesthetic lesions in the infrahyoid region for 30 days. The bacilloscopy was negative. The anatomopathological examination showed alterations corresponding to the tuberculoid pole (epithelioid histiocytes) and virchowian pole (foamy histiocytes), compatible with borderlinevirchowian leprosy (Ridley and Jopling classification). Rapid tests for HIV I, II, and syphilis were positive, with a CD4 count of 223. The patient started treatment with multibacillary multidrug therapy, antiretroviral therapy, and benzathine penicillin, with marked clinical improvement in two months.
PB - Elsevier BV
PY - 2020
T2 - Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
TI - Case for diagnosis. Erythematous and infiltrated plaques in the infrahyoid region
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036505962030310X?via%3Dihub
SN - 0365-0596
ER -