Epidemiological and clinical pattern of leprosy in Goa
Sehgal, V.N.; Rege, V.L.; Kharangate, V.N.
Leprosy in India 48(4): 382-390
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0024-1024 PMID: 1022976 Document Number: 105469
A review of 1,053 patients of leprosy revealed its prevalence in the hospital population as 2.4 per thousand. The commonly affected age group was 20-39 in both sexes; males predominating females in 1.8 : 1. The sequence of frequency of clinical types of leprosy was tuberculoid, borderline, neuritic and lepromatous. Mostly the patients report in the course of 2 years of awareness of the disease. The clinical features were classical and type specific.