tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Acute syphilitic chorioretinitis after a missed primary diagnosis: a case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Acute syphilitic chorioretinitis after a missed primary diagnosis: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Case report Open Access Acute syphilitic chorioretinitis after a missed primary diagnosis a case report Claudia Handtrack1 Harald Knorr2 Kerstin U Amann3 Christoph Schoerner4 Karl F Hilgers1 and Walter GeiEdorfer 4 Address Department of Nephrology and Hypertension Krankenhausstrafie 12 91054 Erlangen Germany 2Department of Ophthalmology Schwabachanlage 6 91054 Erlangen Germany 3Institut of Pathology Krankenhausstrafie 8 91054 Erlangen Germany and 4Institut of Clinical Microbiology Immunology and Hygiene Wasserturmstrafie 3 91054 Erlangen Germany Email Claudia Handtrack - Harald Knorr - Kerstin U Amann - Christoph Schoerner - schoerner@ Karl F Hilgers - Walter Geifidorfer - Corresponding author Published I February 2008 Received 13 July 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 33 doi 1752-1947-2-33 Accepted 1 February 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 33 2008 Handtrack et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Syphilis is well known as an infectious disease which can present with a large variety of symptoms. Clinical diagnosis can be difficult and may be complicated in modern medicine by immunosuppressive treatment and possible side effects of medication. Case presentation We describe a rare case of placoid chorioretinitis due to Treponema pallidum which developed after the primary symptom of proteinuria was not recognized as a rare manifestation of syphilis. Diagnosis of .