Synovitis in secondary syphilis
Abstract
Polyarthritis and tenosynovitis were seen as the presenting complaints in 7 patients with secondary syphilis. Synovial needle biopsy was obtained in 3 cases and showed mild synovitis with infiltration by lymphocytes, plasma cells, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes; vascular congestion; and slightly increased synovial lining cells. In addition, electron microscopy in these synovial membranes showed many necrotic polymorphonuclear leukocytes, much interstitial debris and fibrin, and in 2 patients, bodies suggestive of Treponema pallidum in the interstitium and in vessel lumens.
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/162341
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780220210
ISSN: 15290131
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Arthritis and Rheumatism, Vol. 22, No. 2 (February 1979)
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