This is not leprosy but porphyria cutanea tarda
Obasi, O.E.
Tropical and Geographical Medicine 37(4): 352-355
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-3232 PMID: 4095776 Document Number: 261845
Three cases of porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) misdiagnosed as leprosy were seen between 1978 and 1984 at Kaduna, Nigeria. All three patients had been heavy drinkers of a native alcoholic beverage, "burukutu" as well as beer, for several years. Alcohol abstinence and oral chloroquine therapy produced satisfactory remission of the disease. This is believed to be the first report of cases of porphyria cutanea tarda from Nigeria.