Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. Tertiary syphilis, a late-stage multi-visceral complication of the disease is characterized by its diversity of clinical manifestations. Here, we present the first documented case of tertiary syphilis that clini...

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Autores principales: Smith, Matthew J, Ong, Meydene, Maqbool, Abrar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35355571
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac093
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description Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. Tertiary syphilis, a late-stage multi-visceral complication of the disease is characterized by its diversity of clinical manifestations. Here, we present the first documented case of tertiary syphilis that clinically and radiologically mimicked primary rectal cancer with hepatic metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-89631572022-03-29 Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer Smith, Matthew J Ong, Meydene Maqbool, Abrar J Surg Case Rep Case Report Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. Tertiary syphilis, a late-stage multi-visceral complication of the disease is characterized by its diversity of clinical manifestations. Here, we present the first documented case of tertiary syphilis that clinically and radiologically mimicked primary rectal cancer with hepatic metastasis. Oxford University Press 2022-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8963157/ /pubmed/35355571 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjac093 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer
title_full Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer
title_fullStr Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer
title_full_unstemmed Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer
title_short Tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer
title_sort tertiary syphilis mimicking metastatic rectal cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35355571
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