title: Hansen's disease. Practice tips for management.
abstract: The author highlights some of the critical features of general practice diagnosis and management of Hansen's disease in First World primary care practice. These features are often not obvious or emphasised in most texts because they are designed for a Third World scenario, where primary care is delivered without the luxury of medically trained practitioners and therefore without the option of emergency steroid therapy.
authors.affiliation: Thursday Island Hospital.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Holt
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D015440:Leprosy, Lepromatous / Q000628:therapy