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Early malignant syphilis
Yara Martins Ortigosa1, Paulo Salomão Bendazzoli2, Angela Marques Barbosa3
1Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (Unesp) - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
Anais Brasileiros De Dermatologia
|March 17, 2017
Abstract:
Early malignant syphilis is a rare and severe variant of secondary syphilis. It is clinically characterized by lesions, which can suppurate and be accompanied by systemic symptoms such as high fever, asthenia, myalgia, and torpor state. We report a diabetic patient with characteristic features of the disease showing favorable evolution of the lesions after appropriate treatment.