A male patient aged 75, had complained of the paresthesia on the both sole about ten years ago. He noticed the nodules on bilateral earlobes, and swelling of the face at 1970. He had been not registered as leprosy, and had been treated as a heart disease until Oct. 1973.
On that time he had been diagnosed as lepromatous leprosy and admitted to National Suruga Leprosarium. The patient had remarkable lepromatous lesions in the oral cavity, uvula, soft and hard palate and tongue together with skin lesions.
One of the lepromas of the tongue, sized 3mm×4mm, was taken off surgically and it was observed histopathologically. The mucous membrane is thinner than usual without rate pegs.Submucous tissue is occupied by masses of leprous infiltration, without "free zone ". And the leprous infiltration invade into the muscle tissue of the tongue. The much acid fast bacilli are detected in the leproma.
Since he has been treated over one year with DDS, lepromas of the tongue clinically disappeared, and also the sense of taste has gradually recovered.
