As you know, leprosy is a specific infectious disease of man caused by the Mycobacterium leprae, with long incubation peroid, a long course, exacerbation and remissions.
Which usually involved primarily of the skin and mucous membrane and/or the peripheral nervous system.
Generally almost lepers has otolarnyngological problems such as next following descriptions.
This analysis was carried out to know how many patients were involved to otolarnyngological lesion, who admitted in Wilson´s Leprosy Colony. Though small number, 155 cases were studied statistically for sex, age, symtomatology, signs and their characteristics.
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