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Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases > Skin Diseases > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis, Cutaneous
Infections > Skin Diseases, Infectious > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis, Cutaneous
Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Skin Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis, Cutaneous
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Spirochaetales Infections > Treponemal Infections > Syphilis > Syphilis, Cutaneous
... > Urogenital Diseases > Genital Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis > Syphilis, Cutaneous
... > Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease Attributes > Communicable Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis > Syphilis, Cutaneous
... > Infections > Communicable Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis > Syphilis, Cutaneous
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial > Syphilis > Syphilis, Cutaneous

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Syphilis, Cutaneous  

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Definition

  • Cutaneous lesions arising from infection with Treponema pallidum. In the primary stage, 18-21 days following infection, one or more chancres appear. If untreated, the subsequent stages of the disease appear as syphilids. These eruptions are superficial, nondestructive, exanthematic, transient, macular roseolas that may later be maculopapular or papular polymorphous or scaly, pustular, pigmented eruptions.(Arnold, Odom, and James, Andrew's Diseases of the Skin, 8th ed, p409)

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  • Skin Syphilis

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