Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis
Leprosy is a disease typically found in the tropics. Patients with leprosy can have varying presentation with constitutional symptoms, joint pains, skin nodules, and rarely a vasculitis-like picture with skin ulcers and neuropathy. We present a young lady who presented with the rare manifestation of...
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| author | Durga Prasanna Misra Jyoti Ranjan Parida Abhra Chandra Chowdhury Krushna Chandra Pani Niraj Kumari Narendra Krishnani Vikas Agarwal |
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| description | Leprosy is a disease typically found in the tropics. Patients with leprosy can have varying presentation with constitutional symptoms, joint pains, skin nodules, and rarely a vasculitis-like picture with skin ulcers and neuropathy. We present a young lady who presented with the rare manifestation of skin infarcts mimicking cutaneous vasculitis, diagnosed on histopathology to have Lucio phenomenon on a background of lepromatous leprosy. With increasing migration and widespread use of biologic response modifiers, clinicians all over the world need to be aware of various presentations of leprosy as well as needing to keep an open mind while considering the differential diagnoses of vasculitis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b2e2dfce73ff4adfa5b9d85778e12d7a2025-08-20T03:39:21ZengWileyCase Reports in Immunology2090-66092090-66172014-01-01201410.1155/2014/641989641989Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous VasculitisDurga Prasanna Misra0Jyoti Ranjan Parida1Abhra Chandra Chowdhury2Krushna Chandra Pani3Niraj Kumari4Narendra Krishnani5Vikas Agarwal6Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Pathology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaLeprosy is a disease typically found in the tropics. Patients with leprosy can have varying presentation with constitutional symptoms, joint pains, skin nodules, and rarely a vasculitis-like picture with skin ulcers and neuropathy. We present a young lady who presented with the rare manifestation of skin infarcts mimicking cutaneous vasculitis, diagnosed on histopathology to have Lucio phenomenon on a background of lepromatous leprosy. With increasing migration and widespread use of biologic response modifiers, clinicians all over the world need to be aware of various presentations of leprosy as well as needing to keep an open mind while considering the differential diagnoses of vasculitis.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/641989 |
| spellingShingle | Durga Prasanna Misra Jyoti Ranjan Parida Abhra Chandra Chowdhury Krushna Chandra Pani Niraj Kumari Narendra Krishnani Vikas Agarwal Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis Case Reports in Immunology |
| title | Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis |
| title_full | Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis |
| title_fullStr | Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis |
| title_short | Lepra Reaction with Lucio Phenomenon Mimicking Cutaneous Vasculitis |
| title_sort | lepra reaction with lucio phenomenon mimicking cutaneous vasculitis |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/641989 |
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