Table 1.
Clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of 38 study participants.
Fig 1.
Type 1 reaction: right upper limb of the child with exacerbation/inflammation of skin lesions.
Fig 2.
Median-cubital claw deformity right hand: two nerves affected at diagnosis.
Fig 3.
Absorption of bone deformity in 2th finger of the left hand at diagnosis: deformity that characterize degree two of physical disability.
Table 2.
Characteristics of the reactions and nerve damage of the study patients.
Fig 4.
Median-cubital claw deformity in the left hand: cubital and median nerves affected at diagnosis.
Nine-year-old child with borderline leprosy.
Fig 5.
Dropped hand deformity: worsening of neural damage, with damage radial, cubital and median nerves trunks.
From the same nine-year-old child with borderline leprosy.
Table 3.
Association between the progression of the leprosy reaction and clinical, epidemiologic, reactions and nerve damage characteristics.