Tuberculoid Hansen’s – a case report
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Discussion Tuberculoid Hansen’s is a disease occurring in an immunocompetent individual with granulomatous reaction in the tissue. Usually no bacillus is identifiable. Nerve involvement is common with thickening of the nerve and numbness of the corresponding region. Leprosy caused by Mycobacterium leprae is one of the oldest diseases on earth. It has its earliest description in India and China as early as 600 BC. Several clinical classifications are available. The Ridley-jopling classification correlates clinical findings with histopathology. Hansen’s is either paucibacillary (indeterminate, tuberculoid and borderline tuberculoid) and multibacillary (borderline borderline, borderline lepromatous and lepromatous lepromatous).
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