Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Leproma's dermoscopy
2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 95; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.abd.2019.09.027
ISSN1806-4841
AutoresAnna Carolina Miola, Natália Parenti Bicudo, Giuliane Minami Tsutsui, Hélio Amante Miot,
Tópico(s)Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
ResumoThe prevalence of leprosy has been declining steadily throughout the world since the 1980s as a result of multidrug therapy. 1,2In Brazil, it is still endemic in many regions, and delayed diagnosis, especially in multibacillary forms, is one of the main factors in the maintenance of contagion.Characteristically, leprosy evolves in a chronic, indolent form, with polymorphous lesions and in an oligosymptomatic form.Virchowian forms are even more indolent and diffuse infiltration can make diagnosis difficult.Lepromas, although asymptomatic, are often the reason for seeking medical care, and may generate diagnostic confusion with other papulonodular dermatoses such as granuloma annulare, dermatofibroma and sarcoidosis, among others.As Virchowians are the most bacilliferous, all strategies for identification and early treatments are valuable.In this manuscript, the dermoscopic findings of the lepromas are described.Male, 54 years old, brown, with asymptomatic nodular lesions throughout the integument one year ago.At examination, multiple normochromic papules of fibromatous consistency were found, associated with diffuse infiltration
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