Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease

The authors present two cases of syphilis: one mimicking reactive arthritis and the other Mucha-Habermann disease. Both reports illustrate syphilis as ‘the great imitator’, a description given by Sir William Osler, and call attention to the strong need for awareness among physicians of all specialti...

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Autores principales: da Silva Carneiro, Sueli Coelho, Pirmez, Rodrigo, de Hollanda, Taciana Rocha, Cuzzi, Tullia, Ramos-e-Silva, Marcia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2013
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Published online: January, 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000346745
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Pirmez, Rodrigo
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description The authors present two cases of syphilis: one mimicking reactive arthritis and the other Mucha-Habermann disease. Both reports illustrate syphilis as ‘the great imitator’, a description given by Sir William Osler, and call attention to the strong need for awareness among physicians of all specialties, especially the younger ones, who are not used to seeing this increasingly prevalent disease, as it once was in the past.
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spelling pubmed-35737802013-03-05 Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease da Silva Carneiro, Sueli Coelho Pirmez, Rodrigo de Hollanda, Taciana Rocha Cuzzi, Tullia Ramos-e-Silva, Marcia Case Rep Dermatol Published online: January, 2013 The authors present two cases of syphilis: one mimicking reactive arthritis and the other Mucha-Habermann disease. Both reports illustrate syphilis as ‘the great imitator’, a description given by Sir William Osler, and call attention to the strong need for awareness among physicians of all specialties, especially the younger ones, who are not used to seeing this increasingly prevalent disease, as it once was in the past. S. Karger AG 2013-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3573780/ /pubmed/23467097 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000346745 Text en Copyright © 2013 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: January, 2013
da Silva Carneiro, Sueli Coelho
Pirmez, Rodrigo
de Hollanda, Taciana Rocha
Cuzzi, Tullia
Ramos-e-Silva, Marcia
Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease
title Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease
title_full Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease
title_fullStr Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease
title_full_unstemmed Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease
title_short Syphilis Mimicking Other Dermatological Diseases: Reactive Arthritis and Mucha-Habermann Disease
title_sort syphilis mimicking other dermatological diseases: reactive arthritis and mucha-habermann disease
topic Published online: January, 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573780/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467097
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000346745
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