Open AccessMyositis gummosa
Author(s) -
A. Dmitriev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj80565
Subject(s) - syphilis , myositis , disease , medicine , dermatology , affect (linguistics) , psychology , pathology , immunology , communication , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
A. Jordan and Popova-Bloom (Derm. Zisch., Bd. 55, H. 2) as a result of their observations of 8 cases of this disease come to the following conclusions that m. g. can occur in different parts of the muscles, but more often affect m. sternocleidomastoideus, women are more likely to suffer (the authors have one man out of 8 cases), because this disease is observed in individuals with lues ignorata. M. g. is a manifestation of late syphilis. Diagnosis is fraught with great difficulties and is facilitated only by a positive R. W. The prognosis is favorable, for specific treatment quickly leads to a cure.