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Luetic cervical adenitis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection
H Heller1, F Fromowitz, J Fuhrer
1Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.
Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
The clinical course of syphilis may be altered in some patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. We report two cases of syphilis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection who presented with marked unilateral anterior cervical adenopathy after engaging in oral-genital sex. Neither of the patients had evidence of oropharyngeal chancres. One patient developed a cutaneous rash of secondary syphilis soon after the cervical adenopathy developed. Both patients responded well to antibiotic therapy.