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RHEUMATOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS SECONDARY TO SYPHILIS
*Renata Valente Lisboa, Rafael Moura De Almeida, Ivy Menezes Monteiro, Eduardo Gonçalves Teixeira and Suzana B.O. Ferraz
ABSTRACT
Syphilis is an infectious pathology caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, which can present different signs and symptoms, including the mimicry of other diseases. This infection has increased in incidence since the 1980s, and this fact is related to risk behaviors and the diagnostic evolution of medical practice. This article portrays the case of a 50-year-old patient with fever, purpuric lesion in the lower limbs and bilateral inflammatory low back pain, without other symptoms that suggested an infectious focus. The biopsy of the lesion in the lower limbs revealed findings compatible with leukocytoclastic vasculitis, the performance of a lumbosacral spine tomography revealed bilateral sacroiliitis and the serum evaluation documented syphilis infection, with this clinical presentation described with resolution with the relevant antibiotic administration.
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