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A PECULIAR MONOSYMPTOMATIC FORM OF LEPROSY

V. PARDO-CASTELLO, M.D.; G. M. CABALLERO, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1931;23(1):1-11.

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Under the name of lazarine leprosy, there has been described in the literature, particularly in the European, a clinical form of this disease, characterized by bullous formations followed by eschars and deep mutilating ulcers.

Zambaco Pachá, the famous Franco-Turkish leprologist, has written an excellent description of this form of leprosy from which we quote the following:

La flictène se rompt et, malgré toutes les précautions prises, les applications locales de toute nature et les traitements internes les plus variés, la petite ulcération gagne de plus en plus les tissus environantes et acquiert ainsi plusièrs centimètres de largeur. Dans la varieté rongeante en profondeur, les tissus sont de plus en plus desorganisés, les tendons se dénudent et, dans les cas hereusement rares, ce travail de destruction survenant au niveau d'une articulation, peut malgré tous les efforts qu'on lui oppose arriver jusqu'aux ligaments, les attaquer a leur tour et detacher le membre. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
HAVANA, CUBA; MATANZAS, CUBA

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 1, 1930.

Read at the Fifty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Cleveland, June 20, 1930.

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