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Post‐kala‐azar dermal leishmanasis occurring after 10 years of treated kala azar
Author(s) -
Mittal Rachna,
Behl Pran N.,
Srivastava Govind
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2002.01676.x
Subject(s) - medicine , leishmaniasis , visceral leishmaniasis , dermatology , surgery , pathology
Post‐kala‐azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) as the name suggests, develops usually after 1–2 years of treated kala azar (KA). 1 Infrequently, cases may be seen later than 2 years. A case of PKDL occurring after 10 years of treated KA is herein reported. Such a long disease‐free interval may be forgotten by the patient, and if not carefully elicited in the history, the diagnosis of PKDL may be missed.