Abstract
In 1947 Aycock, in a study of leprosy in American veterans, made the prediction that an appreciable number of cases would result from service in endemic regions during World War II. This report concerns such a case. Similar instances may be anticipated during the next 30 or more years in veterans of both World War II and the Korean campaign who served in endemic regions. The patient is a white man born in Kansas in 1907. The first symptom of his present illness appeared while he was in military service in the Philippines in July, 1945. At that time, without any preceding injury, a painless, irregularly circular 2 in. (5.08 cm.) ulcer appeared on the left calf. This lesion healed spontaneously, leaving a hypopigmented, anesthetic, atrophie scar. During the next seven years the area of anesthesia slowly enlarged to involve most of the left calf. In December, 1952, there was
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