Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation
Leprosy is a contagious and granulomatous disease which is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The incubation period for leprosy is five to seven years and it can take as long as about 30 years before signs and symptoms of leprosy develop in some patients. It is a chronic systemic disease which mostly...
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| description | Leprosy is a contagious and granulomatous disease which is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The incubation period for leprosy is
five to seven years and it can take as long as about 30 years before signs and symptoms of leprosy develop in some patients. It is a
chronic systemic disease which mostly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. It has been seen that indeterminate leprosy is the most
common type seen in childhood followed by tuberculoid variant. Borderline lepromatous and lepromatous leprosy are only occasionally
encountered in children and rarely affects the oral cavity. Here, we report a rare case of an eight-year-old female child patient who
presented primarily with oral manifestations and was subsequently diagnosed as having lepromatous leprosy |
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| spelling | doaj.art-acdcbbbc0c624ee0a975c59cf8375e3e2022-12-22T00:53:32ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2017-04-01114ZD19ZD2010.7860/JCDR/2017/25541.9690Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral ManifestationMayuri Jain0Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Maharana Pratap College of Dentistry and Research Centre, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India.Leprosy is a contagious and granulomatous disease which is caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The incubation period for leprosy is five to seven years and it can take as long as about 30 years before signs and symptoms of leprosy develop in some patients. It is a chronic systemic disease which mostly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. It has been seen that indeterminate leprosy is the most common type seen in childhood followed by tuberculoid variant. Borderline lepromatous and lepromatous leprosy are only occasionally encountered in children and rarely affects the oral cavity. Here, we report a rare case of an eight-year-old female child patient who presented primarily with oral manifestations and was subsequently diagnosed as having lepromatous leprosyhttps://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/9690/25541_CE[Ra1]_F(RK)PF1_(SY_PY)_PFA(SY_SS).pdflepromatous leprosymycobacterium lepraeskin biopsy |
| spellingShingle | Mayuri Jain Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research lepromatous leprosy mycobacterium leprae skin biopsy |
| title | Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation |
| title_full | Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation |
| title_fullStr | Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation |
| title_short | Leprosy in an Eight-Year-Old Child – An Exceptional Case with Unusual Oral Manifestation |
| title_sort | leprosy in an eight year old child an exceptional case with unusual oral manifestation |
| topic | lepromatous leprosy mycobacterium leprae skin biopsy |
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