Mucocutaneous Secondary Syphilis: 'The Great Imitator'

Am J Med. 2018 Feb;131(2):e57-e58. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.10.017. Epub 2017 Oct 24.

Authors

Pirabu Sakthivel¹, Aanchal Kakkar², Suresh Chandra Sharma³, Smriti Panda³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Electronic address: pirabusakthivel@gmail.com.
² Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 29079400
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.10.017

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Diagnosis, Differential
Foot / pathology
Hand / pathology
Humans
Male
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Palate, Soft / pathology*
Palatine Tonsil / pathology*
Papilloma / diagnosis
Penicillin G Benzathine / therapeutic use
Syphilis / drug therapy
Syphilis / pathology*
Uvula / pathology*
Young Adult

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Penicillin G Benzathine

Supplementary concepts

Syphilis, secondary