Clinically silent anterior uveitis in secondary syphilis

1 In a series of twenty patients with secondary syphilis, ten showed signs of overt or subclinical iritis alone. Nine showed signs of purely subclinical iritis. 2 Nineteen were Caucasian men and the one woman was an unmarried Caribbean nurse. 3 Of the nineteen men, fourteen were homosexuals. 4 All received adequate anti-syphilitic treatment as soon as the diagnosis was made, and all ocular signs of inflammation disappeared within 14 days.