| Abstract: | Definitive surgery for leprosy includes plastic, orthopedic, and general procedures. They are performed to improve or correct cosmetic and functional deformities that primarily affect the face and extremities, also for other problems due to leprosy, as gynecomastia and orchitis, and for problems that are unrelated to leprosy. Details of surgical technique would hardly be of interest to dermatologists. More important are the problems that contribute in the selection of surgical candidates. Knowledge of the pathogenesis, pathology and the morbidity of the indications and the appropriate surgical procedures. Factors concerning these problems are included in today's subject: the dermatological aspects and the relationship of the skin to surgery.
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