Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (Mar 2024)

An Image Case of Lepromatous Leprosy in a Patient With Parkinson Disease

  • Rachel E. Strength,
  • Shirin Mazumder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0914
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 3

Abstract

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A 72-year-old man with Parkinson disease presented with 18 months of diffuse blotchiness without associated pain or pruritis. Fite stain and Mycobacterium leprae polymerase chain reaction of a skin biopsy specimen were positive, and he was diagnosed with lepromatous leprosy.