Table 1.

Summary of the salient clinical, histopathological, and imaging characteristics of the eight patients

Case	Affected limb	Skin lesions	Cranial nerve involvement	Site of biopsy; nerve /skin lesion	Duration of illness	Histological diagnosis	Acid-fast bacilli in nerve tissue/skin	PCR for lepra DNA (nerve)	PCR for 16S rRNA gene (cerebrospinal fluid)	Magnetic resonance imaging lesion (s)	On multidrug therapy before biopsy (duration)	Follow-up
1	All four limbs	Yes	VII	Left SRN; skin from leg	8 years	BT	No	Positive	Negative	Facial nuclei and nerve; bilateral BP (Figure 2)	Yes	16 months
2	Left hand; skin	Yes	No	Left SRN	6 months	BT	No	Positive	Negative	C6–C7; left BP (Figure 4)	No	8 months
3	Upper limbs	Yes	No	Left DCUN	3 years	BL	Yes	Positive	Not done	C3; bilateral BP	No	2 months
4	Right upper limb	Yes	No	Left SRN	3 years	BT	No	Positive	Positive	C4–C5 hemicord lesion; bilateral BP	Yes	4 months
5	Right upper limb	No	No	Left sural nerve	1 year	BL	Yes	Positive	Not done	C4–D2; bilateral BP (Figure 7)	No	No
6	Left lower limb	Yes	No	Left sural; skin from leg	2 months	BT	Yes	Positive	Not done	Left conus, lumbar plexus (Figure 7)	No	No
7	Left upper limb	Yes	No	Left SRN	9 months	BT	No	Positive	Not done	Left C5–C6 (Figure 7)	No	No
8	All four limbs	Yes	V, VII, IX, and X	Left SRN	8 months	BT	No	Positive	Negative	Facial nuclei and nerves, cord C2–C3, D4–D5, D7–D8, D11–D12; bilateral brachial plexus and lumbar plexus (Figure 8)	No	No

BL = bilateral; BT = borderline tuberculoid; DCUN = dorsal cutaneous ulnar nerve; PCR = polymerase chain reaction; SRN = superficial radial nerve.