Lucas Oliveira Dos Santos, Tânia Rita Moreno de Oliveira Fernandes, Thamyres Rats de Souza Barbosa, Jemima Araujo da Silva Batista, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza
OBJECTIVE: To review the literature and to report a clinical case with initial suspicion of pure neural leprosy and final diagnosis of amyloid neuropathy. METHODS: The study was conducted in two stages. In stage one, a systematic literature review was carried out, with searches performed in the PubMed, Medline, and Lilacs databases, as well as in the leprosy sectoral library of the Virtual Health Library, using the following descriptors: neuritic leprosy, pure neural leprosy, primary neural leprosy, pure neuritic leprosy, amyloid polyneuropathy, amyloid neuropathies, and amyloid polyneuropathy...
June 9, 2021: Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira