Clinically silent anterior uveitis in secondary syphilis.
1 In a series of twenty patients with secondary syphilis, ten showed signs of overt or subclinical iritis alone. Nine showed signs of purely subclinical iritis. 2 Nineteen were Caucasian men and the one woman was an unmarried Caribbean nurse. 3 Of the nineteen men, fourteen were homosexuals. 4 All received adequate anti-syphilitic treatment as soon as the diagnosis was made, and all ocular signs of inflammation disappeared within 14 days.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013587:Syphilis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000635:transmission; D014606:Uveitis, Anterior / Q000209:etiology*