Pathologic Changes in a Tibial Nerve with Surviving M. leprae in a Healed Tuberculoid Leprosy Patient

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-94

  Job, Charles K ^a   Baskaran, Balasubramani ^a   Jayakumar, Joseph ^a   Aschhoff, Maria ^a  

^a Leprosy Center   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE INJURY; RELAPSE; TIBIAL NERVE; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY, BORDERLINE; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0030971750     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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