Are we witnessing a paradigm shift in leprosy: Two atypical presentations of histoid hansen's disease

Abstract

Hansen's disease is a chronic infectious granulomatous disease with varied clinical presentation. In the postelimination era, histoid Hansen's disease is an important emerging lepromatous subset known to mimic varied dermatoses, thereby making clinical diagnosis difficult and often delayed. We report two cases of histoid Hansen's disease bereft of clinical cardinal signs of leprosy.

Keywords

• atypical
• hansen's disease
• histoid