Limbal leproma in lepromatous leprosy

作     者：Irimpan Lazar Francis Nadir Ali Mohamed Ali Pemasiri Upali Telisinghe Nayan Joshi 

作者机构：Department of Ophthalmology RIPAS Hospital Department of Pathology RIPAS Hospital 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Ophthalmology(English edition)》 (国际眼科杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第4卷第6期

页      面：678-681页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100206[医学-皮肤病与性病学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Limbal leproma in lepromatous leprosy oral Figure 

摘      要：Dear Sir, W e are writing to you to present an unusual case of leproma growing at the limbus of a lepromatous leprosy patient. This the first report of ocular leprosy in Brunei, where leprosy is extremely rare. Leprosy, otherwise known as Hansen’s disease, is a chronic granulomatous communicable infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae and its genetic variant (Mycobacterium lepromatosis) [1]. A leproma is a superficial, ci