Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis resembling borderline-tuberculoid leprosy: A new clinical presentation?

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-77

  Dassoni, Federica ^a   Abebe, Zerihun ^b   Naafs, Bernard ^c   Morrone, Aldo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Ayder Referral Hospital of Mekele University   (Ethiopia)

^c Stichting Tropendermatologie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hypopig mentation; Leishmaniasis; Leprosy

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE;

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHEMA; GIEMSA STAIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NAIL DYSTROPHY; NOSE MALFORMATION; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN INFILTRATE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ETHIOPIA; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LEISHMANIASIS, MUCOCUTANEOUS; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; MALE; MEGLUMINE; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871708402     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1338     Document Type: Article

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