REVIEW Pretty leprosy: Another face of Hansen’s disease! A review P. Prem Anand a, * , Neetu Oommen b , S. Sunil b , M.S. Deepa c , Mythri Potturu d a Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Cochin, Kerala, India b Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Azeezia College of Dental Sciences & Research, Kerala, India c Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Azeezia Dental College and Research, Kollam, Kerala, India d Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Vipula Care Hospital, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India Received 31 March 2014; accepted 17 April 2014 Available online 27 August 2014 KEYWORDS Pretty leprosy; Beautiful leprosy Lucioleprosy; Lepra Bonita Abstract Pretty leprosy is one of the rare severe forms of lepromatous leprosy. It is a reaction pattern that occurs in untreated pure primitive diffuse lepromatous leprosy or lepromatous leprosy. The skin of the patient is diffusely infiltrated and shiny, so that natural wrinkles are obliterated. It generates a moist and myxoedematous complexion imparting a healthy aspect to the patient. Thus the disease got the name. In this review we have reviewed almost all available literature to point more light toward the clinical variant pretty leprosy. A search was made in PubMed central to know the availability of infor- mation about pretty leprosy, but the response was nil for pretty leprosy. 37 articles were spotted in PubMed media on Lucioleprosy; 3 review articles are present and the rest were case reports. ª 2014 The Egyptian Society of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Contents Introduction ............................................................................ 1088 Epidemiology ........................................................................... 1088 Etiopathogenesis ......................................................................... 1088 * Corresponding author. Address: Department of Oral & Maxillofa- cial Pathology, School of Dentistry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Kerala 41, India. Tel.: +91 9387113003, +91 9745213825. E-mail address: premanandp@aims.amrita.edu (P. Prem Anand). Peer review under responsibility of The Egyptian Society of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis. Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis (2014) 63, 1087–1090 HOSTED BY The Egyptian Society of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis www.elsevier.com/locate/ejcdt www.sciencedirect.com 0422-7638 ª 2014 The Egyptian Society of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcdt.2014.04.005