Making the Diagnosis
Even more so than here in the US, you will rely on the history and physical.
History
- Duration of condition
- days, weeks, months ...
- Initial site(s) of the condition
- Cutaneous manifestations
- rash, itching, vesicular...
- Systemic symptoms
- fever, arthritis...
- Recurrences
- cyclic, time of year...
Leprosy, photo courtesy of World Health Organization
- Prior therapy
- Improvement or modified appearance?