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Fig. 3 | Surgical and Experimental Pathology

Fig. 3

From: Neoplastic cells parasitized by Mycobacterium leprae: report of two cases of melanocytic nevus and one of basal cell carcinoma

Fig. 3

Clinical characteristics of leprosy lesions and basal cell carcinoma in case 3. a Patient with leprosy in the borderline Virchowian form (BL) presenting papule-nodular lesions (hansenomas) in the abdomen (*). b Histological sections (HE) of abdominal lesion showing leprosy lesions compatible with BL and characterized by multivacuolated histiocytes. c Bacilloscopy of histological sections (FF) shows numerous bacilli in the cytoplasm of macrophages (*). d and e On the face, the patient presents madarosis associated with a pigmented lesion with features of basal cell carcinoma, located in the lower left peripalpebral region (←)

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Surgical and Experimental Pathology

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