background: langerhans cells are important in the pathogenesis of leprosy.  a recent study reported that these cells were almost absent in the epidermis overlying lepromatous lesions.   objective: to investigate a possible relationship between the number of langerhans cells and the histopathologic spectrum of lesions in patients with leprosy.   methods: an immunohistochemical staining for s100 ...

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease endemic in Iran that mainly involves skin and peripheral nerves. Leprosy has several clinical forms. One of them is “Pure neural leprosy”. The diagnosis of this form is delayed due to lack of clinical signs in other tissues and can lead to permanent deformity. I will discuss my experience for 20 years in the diagnosis and treatment of this form of leprosy...

leprosy is a rare but important infectious disease caused by mycobacterium leprae . word health organization suggested a strategy to reduce the prevalence of the disease to less than one per 10000 people. it seems that the leprosy is now in its elimination stage because during a period of ten years only few new cases were found in iran. we studied 157 new leprosy cases that were referred to and...

background: although leprosy is an endemic disease in iran, it has been reduced rate over recent years. the present study has been conducted to investigate epidemiology of incident cases over last 6 years. methods: a descriptive study designed to investigate all reported cases of leprosy in kermanshah province from 2003-2008. data was collected from leprosy referral center in kermanshah. data w...

leprosy is an infectious and non-fatal disease that mainly involved skin and peripheral nervous system and caused by mycobacterium lepra. this case is a 41-year-old woman with intermittent nasal bleeding and a mass (1.5×2.5 cm) in the right side of lateral nasal wall and a (1×1 cm) mass on septum in the left side of the nose. considering the probability of intranasal tumor, endoscopic biopsy fo...

Background: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease endemic in some areas of Gilan province. Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of the personnel employed in Health System Network (Including Behvarzes, Kardans and physicians) on leprosy. Materials and Methods: Questionnaires consisting of 14 multiple choice questions for Behvarzes and 20 multiple choice questions for Kardans and physicians wee...

Leprosy is a rare but important infectious disease caused by mycobacterium leprae. Word health organization suggested a strategy to reduce the prevalence of the disease to less than one per 10000 people. It seems that the leprosy is now in its elimination stage because during a period of ten years only few new cases were found in Iran. We studied 157 new leprosy cases that were referred to and ...

Leprosy is a neglected disease. The insidious onset of leprosy results in its late diagnosis and therefore the spread of the disease. Characterization of leprosy in areas with higher risk and collection of enough information about these spots to adopt more effective controlling measures are of great importance. In the present study, data for every patient who either referred to the health care ...