Subacute Left Leg Pain in a 48-Year-Old Man Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus and a Previous History of Plasmablastic Lymphoma.

Autor: Shin, Amelia, Ritchie, Stephen R, Billington, Karen A, Hallot, Christopher J, Briggs, Simon E
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Zdroj: Clinical Infectious Diseases; 2/1/2023, Vol. 76 Issue 3, p550-553, 4p
Abstrakt: The article focuses on a case where a 48-year-old man with a history of treated plasmablastic lymphoma and controlled HIV approached with subacute left leg pain, followed by the right leg and left forearm pain. It mentions that a biopsy showed many spirochetes and DNA from Treponema pallidum, leading to the diagnosis of osseous syphilis of the left tibia. It states that osseous syphilis is a rare form of early syphilis that is more typically found in congenital syphilis.
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