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Indian J Ophthalmol ; 1986 ; 34(): 71-2
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-70436
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Indian J Lepr ; 1984 Apr-Jun; 56(2): 241-50
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-54644

ABSTRACT

A total of 380 leprosy patients were studied in four different leprosy hospitals. The involvement of eye was found in 18.95% of cases in which 10.97% in lepromatous leprosy and 8.16% in non-lepromatous leprosy cases. In total cases studied 52.63% were of lepromatous leprosy and 47.37% of non lepromatous leprosy cases. Among them 11.05% were males and 18.95% were females. In 72 cases of ocular involvement, males constituted 80.56% and females 19.44% of cases. Maximum cases (52.78%) of ocular involvement were in leprosy patient with 5 to 10 years of duration. Blindness among the total leprosy patients studied was 1.84% which was mainly due to corneal opacity following exposure keratitis and ulceration, iridocyclitis and its complications.


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Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Blindness/epidemiology , Conjunctival Diseases/epidemiology , Corneal Diseases/epidemiology , Eye Diseases/epidemiology , Eyebrows , Eyelid Diseases/epidemiology , Female , Humans , India , Leprosy/classification , Male , Middle Aged , Time Factors , Uveal Diseases/epidemiology
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