[Syphilis--''to be or not to be"].

Abstract

Syphilis has increased in Denmark and this "great imitator" disease is easily overlooked. Two case stories are presented; one case illustrates how a patient with classical symptoms of secondary syphilis was overlooked by doctors of several specialities for one year, and the other case is of a patient with a lesion on the penis presenting clinically, serologically and histologically as a syphilitic chancre, but it proved to be a rare chronic inflammatory condition known as a pseudotumor. It is emphasized that doctors in all specialities should increase their awareness of this disease.

• Authors: Hans Bredsted Lomholt
• Journal: Ugeskrift for laeger (Ugeskr Laeger) Vol. 170 Issue 40 Pg. 3126-7 (Sep 29 2008) ISSN: 1603-6824 [Electronic] Denmark
• Vernacular Title: Syfilis--to be or not to be.
• PMID: 18823598 (Publication Type: Case Reports, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Granuloma, Plasma Cell (diagnosis, pathology)
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Penile Neoplasms (diagnosis, pathology)
• Penis (pathology)
• Syphilis (diagnosis, pathology)