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Bone Resorption/diagnostic imaging , Leprosy/complications , Osteoarthritis/diagnostic imaging , Osteolysis/diagnostic imaging , Aged , Female , Foot/diagnostic imaging , Hand/diagnostic imaging , Humans , Leprosy/diagnostic imaging , Leprosy/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Osteoarthritis/etiology , Osteolysis/etiology , RadiographyABSTRACT
Leproma material from a female patient with a previous diagnosis of lepromatous leprosy underwent clinical, histopathological and electrone microscope studies. Following a year under rifampicin treatment it was found that the histic lesions corresponded to those described by Ridley (1974) within the clinical picture of regressive subpolar lepromatous leprosy. Electrone microscope studies of the cells composing the lesions were conducted; their ultrastructural appearance does not markedly differ from that reported for the polar form, but regarding the lack of acid phosphatase reaction for the giant multinucleated and vacuolated cells.
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Leprosy/pathology , Skin/ultrastructure , Acid Phosphatase , Epithelium/ultrastructure , Female , Humans , Leprosy/diagnosis , Macrophages/ultrastructure , Microscopy, Electron/methods , Middle AgedABSTRACT
A clinical-pathological study of 270 patients admitted to the "El Rincón" Leprosary is made. The incidence of scalp alopecia, its localization on skull and its association with the polar form of lepromatous leprosy are stressed.
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Alopecia/pathology , Leprosy/pathology , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Female , Humans , Male , Scalp/pathologySubject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Cuba , Hospitalization , Injections, Intradermal , Skin Tests , Lepromin , Leprosy/diagnosis , Leprosy/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Known backgrounds of histoid leprosy are reviewed. A brief bibliographic review is made, and results of investigations carried out by different authors are presented. A black 55 year-old male patient with this type of leprosy whose histological picture is typical is presented.
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Leprosy/pathology , Skin/pathology , Biopsy , Cuba , Granuloma , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
The Provincial Direction of Public Health of Havana oriented the performance of this study in order to investigate lepers and people living with them, mainly from a clinicoepidemiologic viewpoint. The study was elaborated and developed by the Provincial and National Groups of Dermatology as well as by the Provincial Group of Epidemiology in the Ariguanabo region.
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Leprosy/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Cuba , Female , Hospitalization , Humans , Injections, Intradermal , Lepromin , Leprosy/diagnosis , Male , Middle Aged , Skin TestsABSTRACT
Dermatological lesions of a patient are studied and investigated. It is suggested that they belong to a syndrome rather than to an entity. The following etiological classification of the mossy syndrome is proposed: due to bacteria, fungi and viruses, and secondary to other dermatopathies. Bibliography is reviewed.
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Chromoblastomycosis/pathology , Foot Dermatoses/pathology , Proteus Infections/complications , Virus Diseases/complications , Chromoblastomycosis/microbiology , Female , Foot Dermatoses/microbiology , Humans , Middle Aged , Proteus Infections/pathology , Skin/microbiology , Skin/pathology , Syndrome , Virus Diseases/pathologyABSTRACT
A patient with lepromatous leprosy whose atypical histopathologic picture involved giant vacuoles and cell atypia is presented. The summary of his clinical record is exposed, and bibliography is reviewed.
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Leprosy/pathology , Skin/pathology , Humans , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Hemos estudiado cinco enfermos, padeciendo de viruela de la vaca contaminados por contagio directo de vacas a los humanos, ninguno de los cuales estaba vacunado previamente con vacuna antivariólica y que la edad de dichos enfermos fluctuaba entre los 16 y 64 años, todos de la raza blanca, que el período de incubación duró unos quince días aproximadamente y las lesiones localizadas específicamente en miembros, superiores, que dicha enfermedad se produjo por inoculación en conejos y en ternero de seis días de nacido que fueron tratados con penicilina para evitar infección secundaria y que todos curaron en un período de uno a dos meses(AU)
