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Borderline leprosy

Known as: Borderline or dimorphous leprosy, Dimorphous Leprosies, Dimorphous Leprosy 
A form of LEPROSY in which there are clinical manifestations of both principal types (lepromatous and tuberculoid). The disease may shift toward one… 
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Borderline or dimorphous infiltrated leprosy
ClofazimineIn BloodIndeterminate leprosyLEPRA REACTIONS

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Leprosy

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2008
2008
The functional state of the complement system in leprosy.
Ninety-one patients with different clinical forms of leprosy, 36 lepromatous (LL), 33 tuberculoid (TL), and 22 dimorphic (DL… 
2004
2004
Nitrotyrosine localization to dermal nerves in borderline leprosy
Background  Nerve damage is a common and disabling feature of leprosy, with unclear aetiology. It has been reported that the… 
1999
1999
Lesional T‐cell subset in leprosy and leprosy reaction
Background The T‐cell‐mediated immune response plays an important role in leprosy. The in situ proportion and pattern of… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Differences in predominant T cell phenotypes and distribution pattern in reactional lesions of tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy.
The nature and histological pattern of the cutaneous infiltrates of 17 leprosy patients in reversal reactions (Type I) and… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
Pathology and pathogenesis of predilective sites of nerve damage in leprous neuritis
SummaryA very brief review of the literature on the clinicopathological aspects of leprosy is given; mainly through references… 
1979
1979
The significance of changes in the nasal mucosa in indeterminate, tuberculoid and borderline leprosy.
A study of nasal biopsies from 137 leprosy patients classified on the basis of clinical, microbiological and skin biopsy as… 
1975
1975
Antigenic heterogeneity in patients with reactions in borderline leprosy.
Fifteen patients with borderline leprosy who developed "reversal" reactions were studied from the inception of treatment… 
1972
1972
ELECTRONMICROSCOPIC STUDY OF HYPOPIGMENTED LESIONS IN LEPROSY
Summary.— The electronmicroscopic appearance of the epidermis in 2 cases of indeterminate leprosy was studied. There was a… 
1972
1972
Ocular leprosy in West Malaysia. Search for a posterior segment lesion.
The publication of an earlier communication by the author (i969) on ocular leprosy inadvertently posed a problem, that of the… 
1969
1969
Diagnosis and management of ocular leprosy.
Accurate statistics of leprosy are hard to come by, but Browne (i 968, personal communication) estimated the world total to be I5… 
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