A study of histopathological spectrum of leprosy at tertiary care hospital

---

Original Article

Author Details : Krutika Patel, Prashant R Patel*, Jhanvi Vyas, VM Bhagat

Volume : 9, Issue : 1, Year : 2022

Article Page : 16-20

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijpo.2022.004

Suggest article by email

Get Permission

---

Abstract

Background: Leprosy is one of the oldest and chronic infectious diseases known to human being caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Leprosy has been declared eliminated (prevalence rate<1> Aim: To evaluate the importance of skin biopsy in detecting and diagnosing and subtyping of leprosy.
Materials and Methods: This was hospital based retrospective and prospective study of 113 clinically diagnosed cases of leprosy. Skin biopsies were received, processed and stained by H & E stain followed by Fite-faraco method to classify histopathological types of leprosy.
Results: A total 113 cases were studied out of them 73.45% were male and 26.54% were female. Majority of them 32% belonged to 21 -30 years age group. Lepromatous leprosy was noted maximum in 35.39% cases.
Conclusion: Histopathology plays an important role in making definite diagnosis of leprosy.
 

Keywords: Leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, Hansen disease

How to cite : Patel K, Patel P R, Vyas J, Bhagat V, A study of histopathological spectrum of leprosy at tertiary care hospital. Indian J Pathol Oncol 2022;9(1):16-20

This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.