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From: Pre-emptive steroids for a severe oedematous Buruli ulcer lesion: a case report

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Severe oedematous Buruli ulcer lesion after three days of antibiotic and prednisolone treatment. This figure shows the odematous Buruli ulcer lesion of the right ankle three days after commencing antibiotics and prednisolone. The central area of ulceration remains unchanged in size, but the total area of induration associated with the lesion has reduced by 74% to 6.6cm2 (12cm diameter in a horizontal pane and 5.5cm diameter in a vertical plane). The black pen lines on the skin show the reduction in size of the induration in the vertical plane.

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