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Lucio’s phenomenon in untreated advanced leprosy
- Source :
- Human Pathology: Case Reports, Vol 21, Iss, Pp 200413-(2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2020.
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Abstract
- A 77-year-old woman with underlying diabetes mellitus, hypertension and Parkinson disease presented to the emergency department with burn injury after dipping her foot into hot water. She was admitted with 75% dermal thickness burn of bilateral foot. On examination, she was noted to have extensive purpuric patches with livedo reticularis. Further examination revealed leonine facies, madarosis and hypoaesthesia of the lower limbs. Slit skin smear exhibit bacillary index of 3.5 (moderate acid-fast bacteria present). Skin biopsy showed perivascular lymphocytic and foamy histiocytic inflammation with vascular thrombosis (Fig. 1; H&E, 100×) and presence of acid-fast bacilli (Fig. 2; Ziehl-Neelsen stain, 400×), features that are consistent with lepromatous leprosy with Lucio’s phenomenon. This patient was started on antileprosy multidrug therapy (clofazimine, rifampicin and dapsone). However, she developed multiple ulcers, pressure sores and had recurrent infections while in ward stay that required multiple antibiotics regime and daily dressing. She succumbed 3 months following admission due to septic shock secondary to infected ulcers.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Dapsone
Vasculitic ulcer
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Clofazimine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
lcsh:Pathology
Livedo reticularis
Lepromatous leprosy
business.industry
Madarosis
medicine.disease
Lucio's phenomenon
Dermatology
030104 developmental biology
Leonine facies
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Leprosy
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Lucio’s phenomenon
lcsh:RB1-214
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22143300
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Human Pathology: Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ebd885f2f19b5fa5bc531e3810b8a1c5