[Undiagnosed early secondary syphilis with horny palmar and plantar papules]

A 20-year-old female patient is described who contracted syphilis in a rape attempt. She consulted a dermatovenereologist twice but the disease was not diagnosed, for despite the fact that the patient had hard chancre fragments on the posterior adhesion of the vagina, polyscleradenitis, abundant roseolar eruption on the trunk skin, horny palmar and plantar papular efflorescence, erythematous syphilitic tonsillitis, she was not examined nor serological tests were carried out. The condition was diagnosed as callosity and acute respiratory viral disease, antihistaminic and antibiotic drugs were prescribed. The condition was diagnosed only in a month after the first visit to a doctor.