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Annular Erythematous Plaque on the Face in a Lady

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Clinical Cases in Leprosy

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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae and is broadly divided into tuberculoid and lepromatous poles. Tuberculoid leprosy is characterized by a few well-defined hypopigmented macules or plaques with sensory loss. There may be adjacent nerve involvement. Presence of acid-fast bacilli in slit skin smear or tissue sample is confirmatory. Treatment is based on multidrug therapy (MDT). Here we report a case of tuberculoid leprosy in a 34-year-old woman.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

    Rajesh Kumar Mandal

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  1. Dermatology Venereology and Leprosy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, India

    Swetalina Pradhan

  2. Dermatology Venereology and Leprosy, Madhubani Medical College and Hospital, Bihar, India

    Piyush Kumar

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Mandal, R.K. (2022). Annular Erythematous Plaque on the Face in a Lady. In: Pradhan, S., Kumar, P. (eds) Clinical Cases in Leprosy. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08220-7_10

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