Year : 2015

Volume : Volume 5

Issue : Issue 1

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Dr. Turri Sabir Ahmed
drsabirahmed@gmail.com

Abstract

Background:  Leprosy is a chronic disease affecting primarily the peripheral nerves and skin. It is contagious in nature and the causative organism is Mycobacterium lepra. Involvement of internal organs and mucosa has also been reported1. Leprosy presents as a spectrum of clinical manifestations that have bacteriologic pathologic and immunologic counterparts. The spectrum from polar tuberculoid (TT) to borderline tuberculoid (BT) to midborderline (BB, which is rarely encountered) to borderline lepromatous (BL) to polar lepromatous (LL) disease is associated with an evolution from asymmetric localized macules and plaques to nodular and indurated symmetric generalized skin manifestation an increasing bacterial load and loss of M. leprae-specific cellular immunity.2 The occurrence of oral lesions is a rarity occurring primarily in lepromatous form of leprosy.3 In this paper, we are reporting a case of oral lesions occurring in tuberculoid borderline leprosy in a 22 yr old female patient involving the maxillary and mandibular gingiva on the buccal and palatal as well as labial and lingual regions. The patient was put on MULTIDRUG THERAPY [MDT] and is showing signs of improvement with a regular follow up.

Keywords: Granulomatous infections, Leprosy, tuberculoid Hansen`s disease.