Syphilis Causing Lichenoid Esophagitis

We present a 50-year-old woman with human immunodeficiency virus admitted to the hospital for melenic stools and anemia who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy for evaluation of upper gastrointestinal bleed. She is found to have inflammation of the esophagus with ulcerations and crater formation. A...

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Autores principales: Siddiqui, Shaheer, Khurana, Shruti, Cai, Zhenjian, Larson, Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7304531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637440
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000395
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description We present a 50-year-old woman with human immunodeficiency virus admitted to the hospital for melenic stools and anemia who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy for evaluation of upper gastrointestinal bleed. She is found to have inflammation of the esophagus with ulcerations and crater formation. A biopsy reveals severe inflammation with lymphocytic infiltrates with civatte bodies suggestive of lichenoid esophagitis with the presence of spirochetes (Treponema pallidum). The presence of syphilis in the esophagus causing lichenoid esophagitis is an extremely rare presentation that has never been reported.
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spelling pubmed-73045312020-07-06 Syphilis Causing Lichenoid Esophagitis Siddiqui, Shaheer Khurana, Shruti Cai, Zhenjian Larson, Scott ACG Case Rep J Case Report We present a 50-year-old woman with human immunodeficiency virus admitted to the hospital for melenic stools and anemia who underwent esophagogastroduodenoscopy for evaluation of upper gastrointestinal bleed. She is found to have inflammation of the esophagus with ulcerations and crater formation. A biopsy reveals severe inflammation with lymphocytic infiltrates with civatte bodies suggestive of lichenoid esophagitis with the presence of spirochetes (Treponema pallidum). The presence of syphilis in the esophagus causing lichenoid esophagitis is an extremely rare presentation that has never been reported. Wolters Kluwer 2020-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7304531/ /pubmed/32637440 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000395 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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