Diffuse Multibacillary Leprosy of Lucio and Latapí with Lucio’s Phenomenon, Peru
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Diffuse multibacillary leprosy of Lucio and Latapí is mainly reported in Mexico and Central America. We report a case in a 65-year-old man in Peru. He also had Lucio's phenomenon, characterized by vascular thrombosis and invasion of blood vessel walls by leprosy bacilli, causing extensive skin ulcers.
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Lucio’s phenomenon in Lucio’s leprosy
Lucio’s leprosy, a non-nodular form of lepromatous leprosy, appears as uniform diffuse shiny infiltration of the entire skin. Lucio’s Phenomenon, described by Lucio and Alvarado andreported mainly in Mexico and South America, is an rare unusual ulcerative immune complex mediated vasculitis occurring in patients of non-nodular form of leprosy. Here we report a case of Lucio’s phenomenon in a 65 ...
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