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ArticleArquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia

Simultaneous ocular and osseous syphilis: a case report.

Juliana Albano de Guimarães, Marcelo Paccola

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Article in Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Juliana Albano de GuimarãesDepartment of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-4574-7293
Marcelo PaccolaUveitis Service, Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6426-9584
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Syphilis is a reemerging and potentially serious disease. Owing to its ubiquity and pleomorphism, it is called "the great imitator". We report the case of a young woman with secondary syphilis who presented with bilateral acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinopathy along with a syphilitic skull periostitis. A pachymeningeal enhancement was observed on magnetic resonance imaging, but we believe it was an extension of the bone process rather than a meningitis itself on the basis of the normal cerebrospinal fluid analysis results. Treatment with intravenous crystalline penicillin resulted in complete resolution of the signs, symptoms, and imaging findings. Secondary syphilis is the stage with the highest bacteremia and the highest transmissibility, presenting mainly with mucocutaneous disorders and, less frequently, with involvement of other organs. High suspicion and a pragmatic approach are essential to the diagnosis because this disease can affect several organs, as in the present case, in which the eyes, bones, and skin were affected.

Indexed as

ChorioretinitisEye Infections, BacterialSyphilisFemaleHumansPenicillin GPenicillin G

Identifiers

PMID34586244
PMCPMC11826750
OpenAlexW3197325566

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