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Eyes As the Window to Syphilis: A Rare Case of Ocular Syphilis As the Initial Presentation of Syphilis

In the pre-antibiotic era, neurosyphilis (NS) was common, occurring in 34% of patients with syphilis. Currently, there has been a rising trend in syphilis with HIV-infected patients being more prone to develop NS. Ocular involvement is very rare in NS and accounts for only 1%-5% of the cases in the...

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Autores principales: Paulraj, Shweta, Ashok Kumar, Prashanth, Gambhir, Harvir Singh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206462
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.6998