Leprosy affects all the following except :
Correct Answer: Ovaries
Description: Complications of M. leprae
Eye : uveitis, cataracts, glaucoma, corneal insensitivity and lagophthalmus.
Testes : orchitis followed by impotence.
Nerve abscesses : mostly seen in BT form, ulnar nerve is most frequently involved.
Extremities : planter ulceration (most frequent complication of leprous neuropathy), footdrop, charcot’s joints.
Nose : epistaxis, saddle-nose deformity or anosmia.
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