PMID: 11332284May 3, 2001Paper

Frequency and extent of thickening of the nucleated epidermis in leprosy lesions

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases : Official Organ of the International Leprosy Association
T H Rea

Abstract

Using 28 specimens of clinically normal skin from lepromatous leprosy subjects as a standard for comparison, the mean thickness of the nucleated epidermis was found to be significantly increased in untreated lesions from 16 borderline tuberculoid, 21 erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL), and 14 reversal reaction patients, but was unchanged in borderline lepromatous and lepromatous patients. Using specimens from 36 untreated lepromatous and borderline lepromatous lesions as the standard for comparison with the lesions of reversal reactions or ENL which these patients eventually developed, there was a significant thickening of the nucleated epidermis in both reactional states. In both comparison groups, there was a greater mean increase and a larger frequency of thickening in the ENL lesions than in those with reversal reactions. In the borderline tuberculoid and reversal reaction lesions the increase can be understood as secondary to the presence of gamma interferon or interleukin-2. The increase in thickness in the ENL lesions is more difficult to explain, but it is not inconsistent with a role for these same two cytokines.

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