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Secondary syphilis presenting as vertigo.

Bari AU, Mehmood T, Khan B, Malik N, Malik KZ, Sukhera AM

Pak Field Hospital-IV, UNAMSIL, Kenema, Sierra Leone (West Africa).

Syphilis is a chronic, systemic and sexually transmitted infectious disease affecting most of the organs in the body. A young African man presented with vertigo, unsteadiness of gait and a skin rash suggestive of secondary syphilis. Diagnosis was confirmed on serology and was treated with two shots of long-acting penicillin, following which his symptoms settled.

Published 20 October 2006 in J Coll Physicians Surg Pak, 16(11): 727-8.
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