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A 36 year-old woman immigrated from Nepal showed erythematous plaques on her face, buttock and legs one month after the immigration. Before the correct diagnosis was made, the patient had...
Between 2008 and 2009, We found 9 new cases and 3 relapse cases, diagnosis by the clinical finding, skin smear, skin biopsy, lepromin test, ELISA for PGL-I antibody, and DNA-PCR....
According to the reports, the prevalence of anti-HCV is about 1%. In past, the results of the high prevalence of anti-HCV in the patients of Hansen's disease were reported. So...
Hansen's disease, chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. The different clinical presentations of the disease are determined by the quality of the host immune response. The bacteria have affinity...
Since 1992, We have treated nearly nine hundreds cases with paralytic ectropion and lagophthalmos as a sequela of Hansen's disease. Treatment to correct paralytic ectropion was performed by already established...
Oh DC, Lee YT, Lee SR, Jung JA, Song HC, Yoon YA, Kim KS, Choi JH, Ko EK
KMID: 2308463
Korean Lepr Bull.
2009 Dec;42(1):81-98.
Dental infection which has been harmful to human for a long time occurs when the balance of three factors; host, environment and source of infection are broken and occurs especially...
The purpose of this study was to examine the mental health and coping of patients with Hansen's disease and the correlation between their mental health and coping. Data were gathered...
ansen's disease, death certificates of the inpatients of Sorokdo National Hospital between 2001 and 2008 and died during the same time period were used to analyze the causes of their...