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All who live in Pakistan have seen the disfigured faces, stumpy legs and neuropathic hands of leprosy patients. The sight is often aesthetically unbearable for nonmedical people, and for centuries it was considered a stigma — a shame, a blot, and many were not allowed into churches.
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Pfaltzgraff RE, Bryceson A. Clinical leprosy. In: Hastings RC, editor Leprosy. Edinburgh, London: Churchill Livingstone, 1985:134–76.
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Warren, G. (1997). The role of ESWL in patients with leprosy and stone disease. In: Talati, J., Sutton, R.A.L., Moazam, F., Ahmed, M. (eds) The Management of Lithiasis. Developments in Nephrology, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5396-6_26
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