Unexplained delayed nerve impairment in leprosy after treatment.
@article{Rosenberg2003UnexplainedDN,
title={Unexplained delayed nerve impairment in leprosy after treatment.},
author={Nathalie R. Rosenberg and William R. Faber and Marinus Vermeulen},
journal={Leprosy review},
year={2003},
volume={74 4},
pages={
357-65
}
}The objective of this study was to examine the clinical signs, symptoms and course of neuropathies in patients with leprosy who after treatment developed nerve impairment, not explained by relapse or reversal reactions. We searched the case-records of leprosy patients, seen between 1985 and 2002 at the department of dermatology at our centre. Included in the study were patients who had developed nerve impairment after treatment of leprosy in the absence of relapse, erythema nodosum leprosum, or…
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