Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man

We report on a human immunodeficiency virus-infected man undergoing urgent anorectal surgery, with multi-centimeter fungating masses discovered inside the anus. Initial pathology was inconclusive. After the patient developed a disseminated rash postoperatively determined to be secondary syphilis, th...

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Autores principales: Bender Ignacio, Rachel A., Koch, Lisa L., Dhanireddy, Shireesha, Charmie Godornes, B., Lukehart, Sheila A., Marrazzo, Jeanne M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26213693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv094
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author Bender Ignacio, Rachel A.
Koch, Lisa L.
Dhanireddy, Shireesha
Charmie Godornes, B.
Lukehart, Sheila A.
Marrazzo, Jeanne M.
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description We report on a human immunodeficiency virus-infected man undergoing urgent anorectal surgery, with multi-centimeter fungating masses discovered inside the anus. Initial pathology was inconclusive. After the patient developed a disseminated rash postoperatively determined to be secondary syphilis, the anorectal pathology was reviewed and Treponema pallidum DNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction from the mass.
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spelling pubmed-45121432015-07-24 Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man Bender Ignacio, Rachel A. Koch, Lisa L. Dhanireddy, Shireesha Charmie Godornes, B. Lukehart, Sheila A. Marrazzo, Jeanne M. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports We report on a human immunodeficiency virus-infected man undergoing urgent anorectal surgery, with multi-centimeter fungating masses discovered inside the anus. Initial pathology was inconclusive. After the patient developed a disseminated rash postoperatively determined to be secondary syphilis, the anorectal pathology was reviewed and Treponema pallidum DNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction from the mass. Oxford University Press 2015-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4512143/ /pubmed/26213693 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv094 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Bender Ignacio, Rachel A.
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Lukehart, Sheila A.
Marrazzo, Jeanne M.
Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man
title Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man
title_full Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man
title_fullStr Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man
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title_short Syphilis? An Unusual Cause of Surgical Emergency in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Man
title_sort syphilis? an unusual cause of surgical emergency in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected man
topic Brief Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4512143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26213693
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv094
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