Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia
Volume 140, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-81

Hanseniasis: Description of two cases in immigrants [Hanseniasi in immigrati] (Article)

Quaglino P.* , Salomone B. , Rossotto G. , Tomasini C.
  • a Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, 1st Dermatologic Clinic, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, 1o Clinica Dermatologica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Cherasco 23, 10126 Torino, Italy
  • b Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, 1st Dermatologic Clinic, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
  • c Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, 1st Dermatologic Clinic, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
  • d Section of Dermatology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, 2nd Dermatologic Clinic University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Abstract

Two cases of hanseniasis (one borderline tubercoloid, the other sub-polar lepromatous presumably developed from a tubercoloid interpolar variant) diagnosed in immigrants from endemic countries only after repeated unsuccessful therapeutic approaches, are reported. Leprosy in immigrants accounts for the majority of leprosy cases diagnosed nowadays in Italy. Nevertheless, the diagnosis can be difficult due to the rarity of this disease, the language difficulties and the polymorphous cutaneous picture.

Author Keywords

Leprosy, diagnosis Lepromatous leprosy Hanseniasis

Index Keywords

male case report immigrant histopathology lepromatous leprosy differential diagnosis borderline leprosy skin biopsy anamnesis Article clinical feature human adult
Link
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ISSN: 03920488
Original Language: English; Italian