Leprosy Early Skin Lesions
The initial skin lesions are usually of the indeterminate type presenting as a solitary or small number of hypopigmented patches before evolving into borderline tuberculoid or lepromatous types.
Leprosy early skin lesions. Signs and symptoms discolored patches of skin usually flat that may be numb and look faded lighter than the skin around growths nodules on the skin thick stiff or dry skin painless ulcers on the soles of feet painless swelling or lumps on the face or earlobes loss of eyebrows or eyelashes. An infection with mycobacterium leprae or m. This may precede the development of cutaneous lesions by years.
Macular lesions are small diffuse and symmetric. Late infiltrations are present with numerous bacilli. The skin may be smooth and shiny.
Indeterminate leprosy may resolve or progress further to one. Tuberculoid leprosy tt is the paucibacillary form defined by. Lepromatosis bacteria causes leprosy.
Early symptoms begin in cooler areas of the body and include loss of sensation.