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Published on: January 24, 2025
[Syphilis--''to be or not to be"]
1Hudklinikken Vesterbro 99, DK-9000 Alborg. hans.lomholt@dadlnet.dk
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.
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