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ID#:

15503

Caption:

This patient presented to a clinical setting with a hypopigmented cutaneous lesion known as a plaque, located just lateral to his right nipple. Its scaly borders were elevated, and a differential diagnosis ruled out tinea as its cause, but confirmed the lesion to be tuberculoid leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, which is the paucibacillary form of the disease, and is caused by the bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ Arthur E. Kaye

Creation Date:

1970

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