Evaluation of proposed cranial and maxillary bone alteration parameters in persons affected by Hansen's disease

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Aug 25;15(8):e0009694. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009694. eCollection 2021 Aug.

Authors

Rachel Bertolani do Espírito Santo¹, Dâmaris Versiani Caldeira Gonçalves², Rachel Azevedo Serafim¹, Rafael Maffei Loureiro³, Daniel Vaccaro Sumi³, Ricardo Andrade Fernandes de Mello², Simon M Collin⁴, Patrícia Deps¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social Medicine, Postgraduate Programme in Infectious Diseases, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil.
³ Imaging Department, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Aged
Female
Humans
Leprosy / diagnostic imaging*
Male
Maxilla / abnormalities
Maxilla / diagnostic imaging*
Middle Aged
Skull / abnormalities
Skull / diagnostic imaging*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.