Revisiting hansen's disease: Recognizing the many neurodermatologic faces and its diagnostic challenges

Revisiting hansen's disease: Recognizing the many neurodermatologic faces and its diagnostic challenges

Hansen's disease (HD) looms still as a public health problem. Conventional wisdom and teaching largely view HD as a predominantly dermatologic disorder with much emphasis in the dermatology postgraduate curriculum. This review attempts to reorient this view and reemphasize that HD has primarily...

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Main Authors: Bhaskara P Shelley, Manjunath Mala Shenoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2018-01-01
Series:Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences
Subjects:
Armadillo model
chameleons
Hansen's disease
high-resolution ultrasonography
leprae reactions
leprosy
mimics
neurobiology
pure neuritic leprosy
Schwann cells
small fiber neuropathy
temperature-linked pattern
Online Access:http://www.amhsjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2321-4848;year=2018;volume=6;issue=1;spage=157;epage=170;aulast=Shelley

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