Two Cases of Pharyngeal Syphilis |
Hong Zu Cho, MD1, Yun Keun Kang, MD1, Sung Ki Choi, MD2, and Wan Kil Kim, MD3, (Director : Prof. Hi Chun Choi, MD) |
1;Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Chonnam National University, 2;Department of Otolaryngology, Chungnam Medical Center, 3;Department of Otolaryngology, Kwang-Ju Trisevrice Hospital, Korea |
咽頭梅毒의 2例 |
趙弘宙1 · 康連根1 · 崔成基2 · 金完吉3 · (指導 : 崔熙千 敎授) |
全南大學校 醫科大學 耳鼻咽喉科學敎室1;忠南醫療院 耳鼻咽喉科2;國軍光州統合病院 耳鼻咽喉科3; |
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ABSTRACT |
Pharynx is rare recognized tissue as a source of secondary syphilis. We experienced two cases of syphilitic patient which were affected secondary syphilitic lesion on palatine tonsil, tongue, and genital region. A 27-year-old female was referred to the Chonnam University Hospital on Nov. 4, 1971 with complaints of severe sore throat for one month duration. On physical examination, both palatine tonsils show moderate hypertrophy with hyperemia, superficial ulceration with greyish mucous patch and tongue revealed bean sized verrucoid skin lesion, black spots, and mons pubis revealed psoriasiform syphilid, flat papules. A 51-year-old male was entered to the our department of Nov. 12, 1971, with compaints of sore throat, papulomacular squamous skin eruption on scalp eruption on scalp, face, scrotum, and inner thigh for three months duration. Penis shaft revealed condyloma latum, sulcus coronaris show solitary chancre, and palatine tonsils show white-greyish mucous patch, and hyperemia. The cardiolipin flocculation test revealed strong positive rection. We treated with penicillin under the diagnosis of secondary syphilis followed by good result.
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