Deformities due to Leprosy in Children under Fifteen Years Old as an Indicator of Quality of the Leprosy Control Programme in Brazilian Municipalities

Table 2

Clinical and epidemiological features of notified leprosy cases in children under 15 years old according to their degree of deformity in Almenara, Araçuaí, and Diamantina between 1998 and 2010.

	Degree of physical deformity
Variable	0	1	2
	𝑛 (%)	𝑛 (%)	𝑛 (%)
Gender
Female	66 (91,7)	5 (6,9)	1 (1,4)
Male	53 (77,9)	9 (13,3)	6 (8,8)
Operational classification*
Paucibacillary	83 (97,6)	2 (2,4)	—
Multibacillary	36 (65,5)	12 (21,8)	7 (12,7)
Clinical forms**
Indeterminate	66 (100)	—	—
Tuberculoid	17 (89,5)	2 (10,5)	—
Borderline	33 (67,3)	10 (24,4)	6 (12,2)
Lepromatous	3 (50,0)	2 (33,3)	1 (16,7)
Skin smear***
Negative	24 (80,0)	3 (10,0)	3 (10,0)
Positive	4 (100,0)	—	—
Not performed	17 (100,0)	—	—
Ignored	74 (75,7)	11 (12,8)	4 (4,7)
Detection mode****
Referral	23 (88,5)	1 (3,8)	2 (7,7)
Self-referred	68 (85,0)	8 (10,0)	4 (5,0)
Group examination	1 (100,0)	—	—
Contact examination	24 (80,0)	5 (16,7)	1 (3,3)
Ignored	3 (100,0)	—	—
Total	119 (85,0)	14 (10,0)	7 (5,0)

 *World Health Organization classification according to number of skin lesions and nerve involvement: paucibacillary (up to 05 lesions and involvement of only one nerve) and multibacillary (more than 05 lesions and involvement of more than one nerve).
**Clinical form based on the Madrid classification.
***Not performed: skin smear was not performed; ignored: the information is not available at SINAN.
****Referral: at referral centre; self-referred: patients report on their own to health centre; group examination: mass surveys and campaigns; contact examination: detection by examination of household contacts.