TY - JOUR
KW - Nasal leprosy
KW - India
AU - Thiagarajan S
AU - Sambandan A
AU - Ambujam S
AB - Leprosy is a disease known to mankind from time immemorial. It is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, an acid fast bacilli, which affect all groups with no sex predilection. Usually they present with numb hypopigmented patches & localized paresthesia. 1 Here we present to you a case of lepromatous leprosy, with only nasal symptoms as their predominant complaints, due to its unusual nature of presentation
BT - Otolaryngology online journal
IS - 3
LA - eng
N2 - Leprosy is a disease known to mankind from time immemorial. It is a chronic granulomatous disease caused by mycobacterium leprae, an acid fast bacilli, which affect all groups with no sex predilection. Usually they present with numb hypopigmented patches & localized paresthesia. 1 Here we present to you a case of lepromatous leprosy, with only nasal symptoms as their predominant complaints, due to its unusual nature of presentation
PY - 2014
T2 - Otolaryngology online journal
TI - Nasal leproma - an unusual presentation of leprosy
UR - http://www.jorl.net/index.php/jorl/article/view/Nasal_leproma/pdf_80
VL - 4
ER -