00755nas a2200121   4500000000100000008004100001100001500042245006000057300001000117490000700127520048500134022001400619       2016                            d1 aBrandsma W00aRehabilitation of leprosy-affected people: An overview.  a66-690 v343 a<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>
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