Oro-facial manifestations of 100 leprosy patients

Medicina Oral, Patologia Oral y Cirugia Bucal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Taheri, Jamileh Bigom ^a   Mortazavi, Hamed ^a   Moshfeghi, Mahkameh ^a   Bakhshi, Mahin ^a   Bakhtiari, Sedigheh ^a   Azari Marhabi, Saranaz ^a   Alirezaei, Somayeh ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Facial lesions; Lepromatous; Leprosy; Oral lesions; Tuberculoid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORDERLINE LEPROSY; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE INJURY; FACE DEFORMITY; FACE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY; LEPROSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH LESION; MOUTH MUCOSA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NEUROPATHY; OCCUPATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDY DESIGN; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

ADULT; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASES;

EID: 84866689975     PISSN: 16984447     EISSN: 16986946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4317/medoral.17718     Document Type: Article

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