RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Secondary syphilis mimicking inflammatory bowel disease
JF Sexually Transmitted Infections
JO Sex Transm Infect
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 98
OP 99
DO 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050503
VO 89
IS 2
A1 Pedro Vasconcelos
A1 João Borges-Costa
A1 Helena Loreto
A1 Sacramento Marques
YR 2013
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/89/2/98.abstract
AB This study reports the case of a 15-year-old male patient with extensive anal inflammation, cobblestone-like mucosa and areas of ulceration, loose bloody stool and weight loss for 8 weeks, suggestive of inflammatory bowel disease. Genital lesions of syphilides were later observed and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test was positive, thus benzyl penicillin treatment was prescribed with total resolution of genital and bowel symptoms.