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Case report
Penile annular and scrotal eczematoid syphilids with penile chancre redux
  1. Qi Wang,
  2. Hao Wu,
  3. Zheng Huang,
  4. Yi-Ming Fan
  1. Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China
  1. Correspondence to Professor Yi-Ming Fan, Department of Dermatology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong 524001, China; ymfan1963{at}163.com

Abstract

We describe a 17-year-old man who developed penile annular and scrotal eczematoid syphilids with penile chancre redux. Dermoscopy showed linear-irregular and hairpin vessels with white scales in annular lesions. Histopathology displayed psoriasiform hyperplasia with perivascular lymphoplasmacytic dermal infiltrate. Rapid plasma reagin and Treponema pallidumparticle agglutination assays were positive. The lesions disappeared after intramuscular benzathine penicillin.

  • genital diseases
  • male
  • syphilis
  • pathology
  • dermatology

https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2020-054935

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

    • QW and HW contributed equally.

    • Contributors QW and HW: conception and planning of the study; obtaining, analysing and interpreting the data; writing of the manuscript. ZH: obtaining, analysing and interpreting the data. YMF: conception and planning of the study; obtaining, analysing and interpreting the data; critical revision of the manuscript and approval of its final version.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.