[Syphilis--''to be or not to be"].
Syphilis has increased in Denmark and this "great imitator" disease is easily overlooked. Two case stories are presented; one case illustrates how a patient with classical symptoms of secondary syphilis was overlooked by doctors of several specialities for one year, and the other case is of a patient with a lesion on the penis presenting clinically, serologically and histologically as a syphilitic chancre, but it proved to be a rare chronic inflammatory condition known as a pseudotumor. It is emphasized that doctors in all specialities should increase their awareness of this disease.
Lomholt
Hans Bredsted
HB
Hudklinikken Vesterbro 99, DK-9000 Alborg. hans.lomholt@dadlnet.dk
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010412:Penile Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010413:Penis / Q000473:pathology; D013587:Syphilis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology