A rare case of possible vacuolar degeneration of leprosy in brain with segmental necrotizing granulomatous neuritis and horner's syndrome

• Principais autores: Sukriti Baveja (Autor), Sunmeet Sandhu (Autor), Deepak Vashisht (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Leprosy has a predilection for peripheral nerves, but rarely does it involve the central nervous system (CNS). There is a single study of CNS involvement in leprosy showing vacuolar changes of motor neurons in medulla oblongata and spinal cord in autopsy findings. Besides this, there has been only o...