Primary involvement of penile skin in lepromatous leprosy.
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2005-10-10
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Skin lesions in lepromatous leprosy (LL) are usually multiple and widespread. Though the lesion may occur anywhere on the skin, male genitalia is rarely involved. In all cases reported so far about penile lesions of LL, there were lesions on the other parts of the body also. In some of the cases scrotum was also involved. We report here a patient who presented himself with a single macular lesion of leprosy on the shaft of his penis diagnosed as a case of lepromatous leprosy on slit-skin smear and histopathological examinations.
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Mukhopadhyay AK. Primary involvement of penile skin in lepromatous leprosy. Indian Journal of Leprosy. 2005 Oct-Dec; 77(4): 317-21