Pressure ulcer-like presacral gummata in a patient with tertiary syphilis

International Wound Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 74-76

  Wollina, Uwe ^a   Koch, André ^a   Abdel Naser, Mohammed Badawy ^c   Schönlebe, Jacqueline ^b  

^a ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology Georg Schmorl   (Germany)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Pressure sores; Serology; Tertiary syphilis; Wound management

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; TOPICAL AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC WOUND; DECUBITUS; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CYST; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MYELOPOIESIS; PAPILLEDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SYPHILIS; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGINATES; BANDAGES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PENICILLINS; PRESSURE ULCER; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SYPHILIS;

EID: 28244473335     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4801.2005.00076.x     Document Type: Article

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