Syphilitic Chancre of the Lips Transmitted by Kissing

Kissing chancre of primary syphilis

A 30-year-old heterosexual man presented with a painless erosion lesion on the coronal sulcus for 3 weeks. It was oval, indurated, slightly elevated kissing erosion with clean, smooth bases (Fig. 1). The lesion in the prepuce, being too hard to bend, would flip over all at once when the prepuce was drawn back (dory flop phenomenon). He was otherwise asymptomatic, and the inguinal lymph nodes on...

Infectious syphilis: the return of the great imitator to Rhode Island.

Asia. In the United States, syphilis cases reached a peak during World War II, and declined steadily with the use of serologic testing and penicillin therapy until the late 1980s and early 1990s, when an increase in cases in heterosexual women and neonates was linked to exchange of sex for drugs, particularly crack cocaine. After declining once again by 2000, a more recent rise in cases has bee...

Primary syphilis presenting as bilateral nipple-areola eczematoid lesions.

Primary syphilis caused by Treponema pallidum usually develops in the genital region after sexual contact as syphilitic chancres. However, syphilitic chancres can also occur in extragenital regions, including sites of lips, tongue, palate, conjunctiva, neck, breasts, abdomen, intrascapular region, arms, palms, fingers, and thighs with an estimate of incidence ranging from 2% to 31% (1). Solitar...

Perforating chancre: any cause-effect relation with HIV infection?

Bilateral nongranulomatous anterior uveitis associated with chancre of the tongue: initial presentation of syphilis

BACKGROUND This paper reports the case of a pleomorphic manifestation of syphilis, a reemerging sexually transmitted disease. FINDINGS A 51-year-old male presented with bilateral nongranulomatous anterior uveitis associated with an isolated syphilitic chancre of the tongue that was successfully treated with parenteral benzathine penicillin. CONCLUSION Syphilis has the potential to lead to a...