Case of Leucoderma Syphiliticum

Secondary syphilis presenting as leucoderma syphiliticum: case report and review

Leucoderma syphiliticum (LS), originally described as syphilide pigmentaire, encompasses a spectrum of dyschromic lesions that emerge during the course of secondary syphilis. Very few case reports are available in modern biomedical databases. We present the case of a 57-year-old HIV-infected male patient who presented with several round to oval, non-scaling, slightly raised and well-demarcated ...

Leucoderma syphiliticum: a rare expression of the secondary stage diagnosed by histopathology.

Biopsies are occasionally necessary to confirm the diagnosis of secondary-stage syphilis, currently achieved by clinico-serological correlation. However, histopathologic examination may offer clues that can lead to the diagnosis of the disease in previously unsuspected or unusual cases. We report the case of a 35-year-old male patient with vitiligo-like lesions for two years, whose diagnosis of...

Notes on a Case of Leucoderma

By Assistant Surgeon A. "Wood, M.D. Reading somewhere, a short time ago, an article on the diagnosis between white leprosy and leucoderma, which then greatly interested me, I was soon afterwards gratified by having to treat a case of the latter, so well marked, as perhaps to justify my offering a few remarks thereon, in the hope that they may prove as acceptable to others, as the actual observa...

Leucoderma

Leucoderma in early syphilis.

CASE 1 A 25-year-old man first noticed depigmented lesions on the face and neck; a few days later he developed asymptomatic erythematous papular and scaly lesions over the trunk and extremities, and moist papular lesions on the scrotal skin. Two weeks later when he reported to us, some of the trunk lesions had also become depigmented. Four months earlier after an extramarital sexual exposure, t...