The INFIR Cohort Study: Investigating prediction, detection and pathogenesis of neuropathy and reactions in leprosy. Methods and baseline results of a cohort of multibacillary leprosy patients in North India

Leprosy Review

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-34

  Van Brakel, Wim H ^a   Nicholls, Peter G ^b   Das, Loretta ^c   Barkataki, Pramila ^d   Suneetha, Sujai K ^e   Jadhav, Rupendra S ^f   Maddali, Pranava ^f   Lockwood, Diana N J ^g   Wilder Smith, Einar ^h   Desikan, K V ^a  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Leprosy Mission Hospital Naini   (India)

^d Leprosy Mission Hospital Faizabad   (India)

^e TLM Richardson Leprosy Hospital ^*

^f Leprosy Mission Research Resource Centre   (India)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h LEPRA Society   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOFAZIMINE; DAPSONE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMOMETRY; EDEMA; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; NERVE BIOPSY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERONEUS NERVE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR TIBIAL NERVE; PREDICTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TENDON REFLEX; ULNAR NERVE; BLOOD; CHILD; EVALUATION; HOSPITALIZATION; LEPROSY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 19844378175     PISSN: 03057518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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