دورية أكاديمية
Diagnostic delay in a patient with reactional lepromatous leprosy treated as testicular tuberculosis
العنوان: | Diagnostic delay in a patient with reactional lepromatous leprosy treated as testicular tuberculosis |
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المؤلفون: | Mayara Elisa Batista Ferreira, Lucia Martins Diniz, Karla Spelta, Elton Almeida Lucas |
المصدر: | Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, Vol 94, Iss 2, Pp 236-238 (2019) |
بيانات النشر: | Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2019. |
سنة النشر: | 2019 |
المجموعة: | LCC:Dermatology |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Delayed diagnosis, Leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, Dermatology, RL1-803 |
الوصف: | Abstract Leprosy is a chronic neglected and stigmatizing disease. Due to involvement of the peripheral nerves, it can result in physical disabilities, deformities, and emotional damage if not diagnosed and treated promptly. This is the case of a young patient with testicular pain and swelling and no improvement after a specific therapeutic scheme for tuberculosis. Clinical and laboratory reevaluation revealed hypoesthetic skin patches associated with post-burn crusted ulcers on the left arm, thickening of ulnar nerves, atrophy of interosseous muscles of the hands, positive skin smear microscopy, and testicular histopathology with numerous bacilli forming globi. These findings indicated lepromatous leprosy with type II reaction. |
نوع الوثيقة: | article |
وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
اللغة: | English Portuguese |
تدمد: | 0365-0596 1806-4841 |
Relation: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0365-05962019000200236&tlng=en; http://www.scielo.br/pdf/abd/v94n2/0365-0596-abd-94-02-0236.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/0365-0596 |
DOI: | 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20198327 |
URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/ac9f80c15137471d910478e987454de7 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.9f80c15137471d910478e987454de7 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
تدمد: | 03650596 18064841 |
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DOI: | 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20198327 |