title: Childhood leprosy in a rural hospital.
abstract: Sixty six cases of childhood leprosy were studied in detail. They comprised of 7.2% of the Hansen's disease cases and 0.1/1000 of the total hospital out patients. Male: female ratio was 2:1. Four cases (6%) only belonged to the multibacillary group. All the multibacillary patients had a family contact of leprosy. Twelve cases (18.2%) showed nerve involvement and 2 cases (3%) had deformities also. One patient had pure neuritic type of leprosy. Leprosy reactions were not observed in any case. Out of 42 patients adequately followed up after completion of treatment, 3 patients (7.1%) had relapse of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu.
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Prasad
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007194:India; D007223:Infant; D007918:Leprosy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data