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Genital involvement and type I reaction in childhood leprosy

Author(s) -

Ritika Gupta,

Archana Singal,

Deepika Pandhi

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

leprosy review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 2162-8807

pISSN - 0305-7518

DOI - 10.47276/lr.76.3.253

Subject(s) - medicine , scrotum , leprosy , sex organ , dermatology , lepromatous leprosy , dapsone , surgery , genetics , biology

We describe the case of a 4-year-old boy, with a positive family history of multibacillary leprosy (borderline-borderline) in his 12-year-old sister. The patient was diagnosed to have borderline lepromatous (BL) leprosy, BI of 4 + and had two erythematous, infiltrated plaques over the scrotum. He developed type reaction, 3 months following initiation of multibacillary multidrug therapy (MB-MDT) and responded favourably to systemic corticosteroids.

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