Thursday, September 29, 2011

Chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis, a great mimicker with various clinical presentations: 12 years experience from Aleppo

Abstract

Background  Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) has been an endemic disease in Aleppo, Syria for many decades. During the past 12 years, there was a clear increase in the overall incidence of the disease in the region. Treatment using intralesional method of antimonial compounds became ineffective in a considerable proportion of cases and more patients developed the chronic form of the disease.


Objectives  To categorize chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis (CCL) into different subtypes that mimic a wide spectrum of skin diseases, and to analyse the cause of this increase in the incidence of the disease ...

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