Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Mar 1991)

Evaluation of the histopathological classifications of American cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis

  • A. L. Bittencourt,
  • A. Barral

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02761991000100009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 86, no. 1
pp. 51 – 56

Abstract

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In order to evaluate the reliability of histopathological classifications of cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis the authors compared the histopathological patterns of two biopsies taken simultaneously from the same patient, and classified the material according to Ridley et al. (1980), to Magalhães et al. (1986a), and to a more simplified classification with only three patterns. District histopathological aspects, were observed in different lesions or even in the same lesion. The authors concluded that histopathological patterns do not represent a stage of tegumentary leishmaniasis, thus they can not be correlated with prognosis and therapeutical response as suggested in the literature.

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