Gastric syphilis: A systematic review of published cases of the last 50 years

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 177-183

  Mylona, Eleni E ^a   Baraboutis, Ioannis G ^a   Papastamopoulos, Vasilios ^a   Tsagalou, Eleftheria P ^b   Vryonis, Evangelos ^a   Samarkos, Michael ^a   Fanourgiakis, Panagiotis ^a   Skoutelis, Athanasios ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; SEROLOGY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH SYPHILIS; STOMACH TUMOR; STOMACH WALL; SYPHILIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649097736     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181c0d51f     Document Type: Article

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