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ArticleSAGE open medical case reports2024

Lucio's phenomenon in a non-endemic region: A case report.

Adam C Yu, Airiss R Chan, Eunice Y Chow

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Article in SAGE open medical case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Adam C YuFaculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-1786
Airiss R ChanDivision of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Eunice Y ChowDivision of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leprosy remains a persistent health challenge in endemic regions with cases rising in non-endemic regions such as North America. Patients with leprosy present with a variety of symptoms including limited skin lesions in tuberculoid leprosy to extensive lesions and high bacterial proliferation in lepromatous leprosy. This case report details a 77-year-old Canadian man of South Asian descent with lepromatous leprosy and Lucio's phenomenon in Western Canada. The patient exhibited widespread retiform purpura on the limbs with localized ulcerations, erosions, and necrosis on the left hand and feet, peripheral neuropathy, and digit shortening. Histopathological examination and PCR confirmed

Indexed as

Canadalepromatous leprosyLucio’s phenomenonMycobacterium leprae

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PMID39665030
PMCPMC11632873

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