Lepromatous Leprosy Lion Face
The disease attacks the internal organs bones joints and marrow of the body resulting in physical degeneration.
Lepromatous leprosy lion face. It is seen in multiple conditions and has been classically described for lepromatous leprosy as well as pagets disease of bone. Parkinsons facies parkinsonian facies a stolid masklike expression of the face with infrequent blinking which is pathognomonic of parkinsons disease. It is a dermatological symptom with characteristic facial features that are visible on presentation and is useful for focusing on differential diagnosis.
Lepromatous macules may have poorly defined borders and no loss of sensation. It is not a disease in itself but a symptom of other diseases including pagets disease fibrous dysplasia hyperparathyroidism and renal osteodystrophy and is also seen in patients who have advanced lepromatous leprosy1. Although the sites of skin lesions are similar to those of tuberculoid leprosy the multiple lesions of lepromatous leprosy are often symmetrically distributed.
Leonine facies is a facies that resembles that of a lion. Lion face syndrome a rare case report. In this form of leprosy mycobacterium leprae are found in lesion in large numbers.
Local nerve enlargement is not characteristic. Leonine facies deformity seen in lepromatous leprosy often involves thickening of the skin loss of eyebrows and eyelashes collapse of the nose and formation of nodular earlobes. This debilitating form of leprosy begins to spread causing the eyebrows to disappear and spongy tumor like swellings appear on the face and body.
Leontiasis ossea also known as leontiasis or lion face is a rare medical condition characterized by an overgrowth of the facial and cranial bones. Lepromatous leprosy presents with poorly demarcated lesions on the extensor surface of the extremities lion face bandana. Leonine facies a peculiar deeply furrowed lionlike appearance of the face seen in certain cases of advanced lepromatous leprosy and in other diseases associated with facial edema.
Lepromatous leprosy is characterized by multiple skin lesions that are smaller than those observed in tuberculoid leprosy fig.