Osseous Syphilis

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UNUSUAL and extensive involvement of the osseous system by syphilis occurring thirteen months after the appearance of the secondary skin manifestations is indeed of interest. It is known that wide dissemination of spirochetes through the body tissue occurs within three or four hours after the initial infection. Even though the bone, with its periosteum and blood-forming marrow cavity, contains myriads of spirochetes, skeletal involvement is comparatively rare.Much has been written by the earliest syphilologists vividly describing the symptoms — the pathognomonic osteopathic pain and bony swelling that occur in skeletal syphilitic involvement. The case reported herein is that of . . .

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