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Bullous secondary syphilis
Author(s) -
LAWRENCE P.,
SAXE N.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1992.tb02533.x
Subject(s) - secondary syphilis , medicine , syphilis , dermatology , penicillin , bullous pemphigoid , antibiotics , virology , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , microbiology and biotechnology , antibody , biology
Summary An earlier standard syphilology textbook states that‘If vesicles are an essential part of an eruption in an adult, the lesions are not due to secondary syphilis' 1 . However, vesicular and bullous eruptions do occur in congenital syphilis and rare reports of both vesicular 2 and pustular 3 eruptions in adults with secondary syphilis have been published. We describe a patient with a bullous‐pemphigoid‐like eruption and a positive VDRL in whom treatment with a course of procaine penicillin resulted in rapid permanent resolution of the eruption.