@article{27141,
  author = {Brandsma W},
  title = {Rehabilitation of leprosy-affected people: An overview.},
  abstract = {<p>Leprosy is mainly a disease of the skin and nerves. The involvement of nerves may lead to impairments that have, contributed to the fact that leprosy is often still seen as a disease to be feared. In non-leprosy-endemic Western countries, beliefs continue to prevail about the inevitability of deformities and the lack of a cure. I review the pathogenesis of deformity and to present a discourse on how deformities can, to a very large extent, be prevented and corrected.</p>
},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Clinics in dermatology},
  volume = {34},
  pages = {66-69},
  issn = {1879-1131},
  doi = {10.1016/j.clindermatol.2015.10.015},
  language = {eng},
}