[Two cases of leprosy related conditions and relevant issues on medical services for ex-leprosy patients who live in communities in Japan].

In Japan people affected by leprosy who were forced to admit to national leprosy sanatoria under leprosy prevention/segregation law (1953) have ever been promoted to return to live in community, after destruction of the law in 1996. In this paper two cases are shown with some comments who had already been discharged from leprosy sanatoria and came late to OPD of National Suruga Sanatorium for consultations of their leprosy related conditions. One case is a 60 year-old male who developed squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) from chronic planter ulcer.

[Tendencies of prescriptions for neuralgic pain in National Suruga Sanatorium (leprosy), Japan during last 11 years].

The number of ex-leprosy patients has reduced rapidly who were forced to be admitted under leprosy prevention/segregation law and are staying at national sanatoriums with different disabilities due to different physical and social reasons for long time in Japan. Most of them have been of clinically cured status for decades after effective chemotherapy. Some have still been suffering from acute or chronic neuralgic pains which are supposed to be long standing consequences of nerve damage of leprosy and getting medications for long period.