A case of Patient with Lepromgtous Leprosy initially Syringoma-like Skin Lesions
저자
Keon part, Young Ho Won, and Inn Ki Chun
소속
Department on Dermatology, Channam University Medical School, Kwangju, Korea
년도
1993
권
26
호
2
번호
시작페이지
77
끝페이지
81
첨부
요약
Leprosy is still major health problem in Korea. It is one of the major disabling diseases and imposes a considerable burden in terms of morbidity and social stigma The patient was 54-year-old woman who had discrete multiple nodules around the eyes as a initial skin lesions. They were similar clinical findings of syringomas or trichoepitheliomas. However histopathololgic elimination of skin nodule on the face revealed the characteristics of typical lepromatous leprosy. The skin lesions were almoshy disappeared with 7-month multi-drug therapy.
