An Unusual Visit from an Old Foe: Oral Presentation of Syphilis in a Teenage Patient

The authors report an atypical case of secondary syphilis in an adolescent female presenting to a tertiary-care center with fever, weight loss, oral sores, painful inguinal lymphadenopathy, and transient macular rash. Given the lower prevalence of syphilis in adolescent females, this infection was n...

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Published in:Case reports in pediatrics Vol. 2021; pp. 1 - 3
Main Authors: Tarhan, Bedirhan, Rahman, Sydur, Halloran, Diana, Sites, Jeremy, Bhatt, Avni, Ryan, Kathleen, Plaza-Verduin, Maritza, Vu, Thao
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Abstract The authors report an atypical case of secondary syphilis in an adolescent female presenting to a tertiary-care center with fever, weight loss, oral sores, painful inguinal lymphadenopathy, and transient macular rash. Given the lower prevalence of syphilis in adolescent females, this infection was not included on the initial differential diagnosis. The evolving presentation of syphilis over time complicates the diagnosis and management of these infections, as it did for the patient in this report. The authors provide a detailed discussion of the patient’s clinical findings, including the protean features of syphilis infection. This case is particularly relevant to the fields of general pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine.
AbstractList The authors report an atypical case of secondary syphilis in an adolescent female presenting to a tertiary-care center with fever, weight loss, oral sores, painful inguinal lymphadenopathy, and transient macular rash. Given the lower prevalence of syphilis in adolescent females, this infection was not included on the initial differential diagnosis. The evolving presentation of syphilis over time complicates the diagnosis and management of these infections, as it did for the patient in this report. The authors provide a detailed discussion of the patient’s clinical findings, including the protean features of syphilis infection. This case is particularly relevant to the fields of general pediatrics and pediatric hospital medicine.
Author Halloran, Diana
Bhatt, Avni
Plaza-Verduin, Maritza
Ryan, Kathleen
Rahman, Sydur
Tarhan, Bedirhan
Vu, Thao
Sites, Jeremy
AuthorAffiliation 4 University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
1 Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
3 Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
5 Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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