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LEPROSY IN SYDNEY: A BRIEF ACCOUNT
Author(s) -
Boughton C. R.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1977.tb117700.x
Subject(s) - leprosy , mononeuritis multiplex , haematoxylin , dermatology , medicine , acid fast , eosin , disease , pathology , staining , vasculitis , tuberculosis , sputum
Individuals with leprosy and those incubating the disease continue to enter New South Wales from endemic areas. With early diagnosis and treatment, the prognosis is good. The diagnosis should be considered in any patient who has lived or worked in a leprosy endemic country and who presents with an unusual or persistent skin eruption (especially if there is associated hypoaesthesia) and/or mononeuritis or mononeuritis multiplex. Occasionally the disease presents in other guises; biopsy of the appropriate tissue and staining for acid‐fast bacilli, as well as with haematoxylin and eosin, will usually indicate the correct diagnosis.