Involvement of palms in leprosy: An unusual clinical manifestation
Leprosy (Hansen's disease), a chronic granulomatous infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, frequently affects the areas of skin, which have a relatively low temperature and/or are prone to trauma. Several zones of skin, for example, scalp, palms and soles, groins, genitalia, axillae, eyelids...
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications,
2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Leprosy (Hansen's disease), a chronic granulomatous infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, frequently affects the areas of skin, which have a relatively low temperature and/or are prone to trauma. Several zones of skin, for example, scalp, palms and soles, groins, genitalia, axillae, eyelids, and perineum, have usually been described as "immune" to lesions of leprosy. However, clinical, bacteriological, and pathologic evidence of involvement of these so-called "immune zones" has rarely been documented. Therefore, now many workers have proposed that these "immune zones" should be called "relatively immune," rather than "absolute immune." Hereby, we report a rare case of leprosy with palmar involvement. |
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| Item Description: | 2542-551X 2542-5528 10.4103/CDR.CDR_44_19 |