Open AccessSyphilis as osteomyelitis of the fifth metatarsal of the left foot: the great imitator hits once again
Author(s) -
Valeria Gaspari,
Liliana Mazza,
Daniela Pinto,
Beatrice Raone,
Pietro Calogero,
Annalisa Patrizi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.04.015
Subject(s) - medicine , syphilis , osteomyelitis , foot (prosody) , surgery , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , linguistics , philosophy , family medicine
We report an unusual case of osteomyelitis of the left foot due to syphilitic bone involvement.
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