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Cranial neuropathy in patients with leprosy
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Leprosy is a common cause of peripheral neuropathy in tropical countries including India[1] and neuropathy is observed across the spectrum of leprosy from polar tuberculoid (TT), borderline (BT, BB, BL) to polar lepromatous (LL) types. Diagnosis is not difficult when cutaneous lesions are present, but inthe 'pure or primary neuritic' form where skin lesions are absent, a high index of suspicion is required to look for thickening of nerves and proceed with confirmatory investigations of nerve ...
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Cranial nerve involvement in patients with leprous neuropathy
Neurology India
; Introduction Leprosy is the most common cause of treatable peripheral neuropathy in India and probably also in the world. Cutaneous nerves are universally affected in leprosy, even in cases of pure neuritic leprosy with apparently normal skin.[1] Though the skin and peripheral nerves are more
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Cranial neuropathy in patients with leprosy
Neurology India
; Leprosy is a common cause of peripheral neuropathy in tropical countries including India[1] and neuropathy is observed across the spectrum of leprosy from polar tuberculoid (TT), borderline (BT, BB, BL) to polar lepromatous (LL) types. Diagnosis is not difficult when cutaneous lesions are present,
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FOCUS@HEALTH: Leprosy is least contagious among infectious diseases
Filipino Reporter
; (Editor's note: Philip S. Chua, M.D. is cardiac surgeon emeritus in Northwest Indiana, and currently the chairman of cardiovascular surgery of the Cebu Cardiovascular Center at Cebu Doctors' Hospital in Cebu, Philippines. He was a Denton A. Cooley Fellow in cardiac surgery at the Texas Heart
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Pathogens & People: Leprosy: Alive and well in the U.S.
Capital (Annapolis)
; ... Countries with the greatest disease burden today include Brazil, India, China and numerous areas of Africa. Last year, the Reuters news agency reported that China still has hundreds of "leper colonies" housing mostly people who have recovered from leprosy, but ...
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India: Leprosy - Eliminated or Concealed?
Women's Feature Service
; New Delhi, (WFS) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) claims to have eradicated leprosy from most parts of the world. Yet in India, in a town called Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, Ghulam Rasool, 60, killed his 25-year-old son who suffered from leprosy. This wholly avoidable death occurred as recently
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Clinicohistopathological correlation of leprosy
Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
; Sir, Leprosy is one of the major public health problems of the developing countries. The principle of reducing the load of infection in society, to break the chain of infection, is the cornerstone of leprosy control work today. Clinical judgment and skin smear examination is required for early
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Leprosy and the law - Burning issue for a burning out disease
Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
; Rights of people suffering from Hansen's disease have evoked renewed interest. One of the major causes could be the media attention to the claims for compensation filed by some of the Japanese people released from treatment of Hansen's disease. SEGREGATION Japan had enacted the Leprosy Prevention
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Looking out for leprosy
Dermatology Times
; A case of leprosy in Rhode Island Chicago - Many people have a frightening image of lepers as disfigured people, roaming around colonies. The Bible makes several references to what is now a reportable infectious disease, rarely seen by dermatologists. Still, leprosy does occur in the United States,
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Leprosy.(Health)
Manila Bulletin
; How widespread is leprosy at present? I know that the disease was widespread and incurable during earlier times, but we seldom hear about it nowadays. What are the signs and symptoms of the disease and is it now curable? Lovely C., Manila Leprosy is one of the earliest diseases known to man.
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The representation of leprosy and war in The Samurai's Garden.(Ensayo crÃtico)
Atenea
; ... and relatively innocuous. His initial account simply notes the news came over the radio that the Japanese had captured Tientsin and ... the airwaves in Matsu's home and assaults Stephen's ears. The news of war blared (17) on the radio; was announced in a high, scratchy ...
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