Lesoes lepróticas da mucosa bucal

ABSTRACT

One hunbred and fifty lepromatous patients of both sexes, with active lesions, were selected for this study through clinical, baclloscopic and histopathological examinations. Two kinds of lesions found active and residual. Specific active lesions were described as maculas, inflitrations, papules, nodules and plaques, which were most frequently found, in decreasing order in uvula, soft and hard palate, and lips. Lesions presenting positive bacilloscopic, even with as apparenthy normal mucosa, were always considered as active. Residual lesions were destruction, atrophy and retraction of uvula, scars and nasopalatine perforation, more frequent in those patients with longer duration of the disease. According to bacilloscopy, oral lesions involute simultaneously with skin lesions. for this study, clinical, bacilloscopic and histopathological examinations were made, besides photographs of the most suggestive cases