A case of recurrent rash and leg numbness mimicking systemic rheumatic disease: The occurrence of leprosy in a nonendemic area

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 143-145

  Flower, Cindy ^a,b   Gaskin, David ^a   Marquez, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Barbados)

Author keywords

Leprosy; Lupus; Mycobacterium leprae

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; AMITRIPTYLINE; AZATHIOPRINE; DAPSONE; PREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; FEMALE; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; MOUTH ULCER; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHY; PARESTHESIA; POLYNEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ALOPECIA; CHEST PAIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GUYANA; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL ULCER; RHEUMATIC DISEASES;

EID: 34249982305     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e318064e7a0     Document Type: Article

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