title: Leprosy of the upper respiratory tract. A clinical bacteriological, histopathological and histochemical study of twenty cases.
abstract: Twenty cases clinically diagnosed as leprosy were thoroughly examined for E.N.T. lesions. These lesions were subjected to bacteriological, histopathological and histochemical studies. The results have been tabulated and discussed with special stress on some findings which are of help in diagnosing the disease.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004848:Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D007830:Larynx / Q000473:pathology; D007918:Leprosy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008214:Lymphocytes; D008297:Male; D008679:Metaplasia / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009166:Mycobacterium leprae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D010614:Pharynx / Q000473:pathology; D010950:Plasma Cells; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D012222:Rhinitis, Atrophic / Q000209:etiology