A unique case of concomitant intra and extracranial Hansen's disease.
Leprosy is a debilitating disease that usually involves the peripheral branches of the cranial nerves leading to anesthetic/hypoesthetic skin lesions and thickened peripheral nerves. However, the involvement of the central nervous system (CNS) is extremely rare. To the best of the author's knowledge, the involvement of the cranial nerve nuclei by leprosy has not been reported in the literature and the present case is the first report of involvement of the facial nerve nuclei by leprosy.
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Room no F-34, Neurosurgery office, 1st floor, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India, 110060. divyam17@gmail.com.
Divyam
0000-0003-0880-1390
D
Sharma
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Room no F-34, Neurosurgery office, 1st floor, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India, 110060.
Anshul
A
Gupta
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Room no F-34, Neurosurgery office, 1st floor, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India, 110060.
Satnam Singh
SS
Chhabra
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Room no F-34, Neurosurgery office, 1st floor, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India, 110060.
Shrey
S
Jain
D000328:Adult; D003389:Cranial Nerve Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male
CNS leprosy; Cranial nerve leproma; Cranial nerve nucleus in leprosy; Facial nerve; Mycobacterium leprae