Alopecia syphilitica

Alopecia syphilitica is a less common manifestation of secondary syphilis. It could present with other mucocutaneous symptoms of secondary syphilis or rarely present as the only symptom of secondary syphilis, the so-called “essential syphilitic alopecia.” Herein, we present a case of essential syphi...

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Autores principales: Chiu, Hsiu-Hui, Wu, Chieh-Shan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30148279
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_92_16
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description Alopecia syphilitica is a less common manifestation of secondary syphilis. It could present with other mucocutaneous symptoms of secondary syphilis or rarely present as the only symptom of secondary syphilis, the so-called “essential syphilitic alopecia.” Herein, we present a case of essential syphilitic alopecia to remind physicians, especially for sexually active patients.
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spelling pubmed-60859452018-08-24 Alopecia syphilitica Chiu, Hsiu-Hui Wu, Chieh-Shan Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Photofeature Alopecia syphilitica is a less common manifestation of secondary syphilis. It could present with other mucocutaneous symptoms of secondary syphilis or rarely present as the only symptom of secondary syphilis, the so-called “essential syphilitic alopecia.” Herein, we present a case of essential syphilitic alopecia to remind physicians, especially for sexually active patients. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6085945/ /pubmed/30148279 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.IJSTD_92_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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