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ArticleIndian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS

Moth-eaten alopecia and beyond: Syphilitic alopecia - Revisited.

Aravind Baskar Murthy, Vijayasankar Palaniappan, Ragul Raj Elango, Kaliaperumal Karthikeyan

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Article in Indian journal of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS. 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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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Aravind Baskar MurthyDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu, India.
Vijayasankar PalaniappanDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India.
Ragul Raj ElangoDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India.
Kaliaperumal KarthikeyanDepartment of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital, Puducherry, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alopecia is usually an overlooked manifestation of syphilis commonly seen in secondary syphilis with a prevalence of 2.9%-7%. It is broadly classified into symptomatic and essential alopecia and the observed patterns include moth-eaten type, generalized thinning, and mixed pattern. Here, we report a 38-year-old male who presented with mixed pattern alopecia of the scalp and bilateral postauricular lymphadenopathy. Toluidine red unheated serum test and

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Alopecia syphiliticamoth-eaten alopeciasyphilitic alopecia

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