Granuloma multiforme (GM) is a reactive skin disorder of unknown etiology, characterized clinically by confluent annular lesions and histologically by focal necrobiosis and histiocytic granulomas. GM is significant because of its clinical resemblance to tuberculoid leprosy, with which it can be confused. Here, we report a case of granuloma multiforme from India in a 70-year-old male farmer, wit...

We describe a case of borderline tuberculoid leprosy associated with primary cutaneous histoplasmosis in a patient who presented at our hospital with skin lesions and joint complaints.

A lesion of tuberculoid leprosy in an Indian lady presenting at the site of injury from a broken glass bangle is reported. The diagnosis was by classical clinical features and histopathology. The importance of the skin in leprosy transmission is emphasised.

It is commonly accepted that the attainment of bacteriological negativity fails to restore the immune state of leprosy patients who have downgraded to lepromatous. We report six patients who had been lepromatous (LLs), and who, after many years of chemotherapy and bacteriological negativity, were found upon relapse to have upgraded to borderline-tuberculoid (BT). Five had become Mitsuda lepromi...