Familial clustering of severe atypical variants of erythema nodosum leprosum in immunocompetent siblings
Author(s) -
Sarita Sanke,
Ram Chander,
Abhinav Kumar
Publication year - 2017
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.88.4.568
Subject(s) - medicine , leprosy , erythema nodosum , dermatology , disease , pathology
Erythema nodosum leprosum is characterised by brightly erythematous tender nodules or plaques usually in bilateral symmetrical distribution. ENL can also present in several atypical presentations like pustular, erythema multiform like, ulcerative, necrotic, panniculitic and bullous forms. Various precipitating factors for ENL include stress, pregnancy, surgery, lactation, menstruation, infections and sometimes therapy. We report two rare varities of ENL pustular ENL and bullous variant manifesting simultaneously in 2 siblings of a family.
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