Lucio Leprosy with Lucio's phenomenon, digital gangrene and anticardiolipin antibodies

Lucio's phenomenon (LPh) is considered a necrotizing panvasculitis and a variant of leprosy Type 2 reaction, clinically characterised by necrotic-haemorrhagic lesions on the extremities and trunk. LPh is observed in diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL or Lucio-Latapi leprosy). This is a distinct f...

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Main Author: Ortega Cabrera, L. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/18984
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