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Alopecia syphilitica: report of two cases in Geneva
1Department of Dermatology, DHURDV, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland.
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 17, 2001
Abstract:
Two patients with alopecia syphilitica are presented. Moth-eaten alopecia is the most typical look of secondary syphilis on the scalp. With the decrease in syphilis cases in western countries, this rarer clinical manifestation tends to be misdiagnosed.