Late-occurring cutaneous vasculitis after successful treatment of diffuse lepromatous leprosy: Lucio's phenomenon;Vasculite cutanée à révélation tardive après guérison d'une lèpre lépromateuse diffuse: Le phénomène de Lucio

Medecine Tropicale

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-68

  Fenniche, S ^a   Benmously, R ^a   Sfia, M ^a   Daoud, L ^a   Debbiche, A ^a   Ben Ayed, M ^a   Mokhtar, I ^a  

^a HABIB THAMEUR HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Lepromatous leprosy; Lucio phenomenon; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

DAPSONE; ETHIONAMIDE; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; LEPROSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHEMA; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LUCIO PHENOMENON; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; NECROSIS; PURPURIC RASH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULITIS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL DISORDER;

MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE;

GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LEPROSTATIC AGENTS; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISONE; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; VASCULITIS;

EID: 34250643608     PISSN: 0025682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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