Stain Histopathology diagnosis positive diagnosis Clinical types n (%) n (%) n (%) Paucibacillary (n = 21) TT 10 (18) 0 14 BT 11 (20) 0 11 Multibacillary (n = 34) BL 27 (49) 2 22 LL 7 (13) 7 5 Total 55 (100) 9 (16) 52 (95) PCR positive Clinical types n (%) Paucibacillary (n = 21) TT 4 BT 6 Multibacillary (n = 34) BL 23 LL 7 Total 40 (73) TT,
Tuberculoid leprosy; BT, Borderline
tuberculoid leprosy; BL, Borderline lepromatous leprosy; LL, Lepromatous leprosy.
Keywords: Leprosy, Borderline
Tuberculoid Leprosy, M.
"It looked as if we had converted that limited area from lepromatous to
tuberculoid leprosy," Nathan says.
Tuberculoid leprosy presents with macules or plaques.
The diagnostic hypothesis was reactional
tuberculoid leprosy (Figure 1).
It is clearly evident from Table 4 that clinically majority of the patients (40%) belonged to Lepromatous Leprosy (LL) group followed by Borderline Tuberculoid (BT) group (24%),
Tuberculoid Leprosy (TT) group (14%) and Mid-Borderline (BB) group and Indeterminate Leprosy (IL) group with 6% to 4% each.
Borderline
tuberculoid leprosy: an immune reconstitution phenomenon in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected person.
A biopsy was performed with the differential diagnosis of DLE, vitiligo, lupus vulgaris, hypopigmented lesions of
tuberculoid leprosy, actinic keratoses, coral reef keratoacanthomas.
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Tuberculoid leprosy & lepromatous leprosy were seen in equal proportion in both cases.
Report of two AIDS patients presenting a shifting from borderline lepromatous leprosy to borderline
tuberculoid leprosy. Lepr Rev.
In children,
tuberculoid leprosy is more common than lepromatous leprosy.
Sporotrichoid
tuberculoid leprosy. Acta Dermato-venereol, 1998; 78: 381.
