Cassio Porto Ferreira, Vinicius Medeiros, Raquel Cristina Maia, Anna Maria Sales and Jose Augusto Da Costa Nery
Secondary Syphilis Mimicking Leprosy Type1 Reaction
Syphilis and leprosy have cutaneous manifestations with great lesional polymorphism with subsequent difficult differential diagnosis. Both have additional tests that, in certain situations, are inconclusive, making it difficult to confirm the clinical diagnosis. In medical literature there are several clinical cases reported in which patients with syphilis were erroneously diagnosed and treated as having leprosy. Physicians need to maintain a high index of suspicion for the diagnosis of syphilis.
English 
Spanish 
Chinese 
Russian 
German 
French 
Japanese 
Portuguese 
Hindi