EXTRAGENITAL AND URETHRAL CHANCRE.

Extragenital bullous lichen sclerosus.

Lichen sclerosus is an inflammatory skin condition characterized by inflammation of the papillary dermis that leads to white scarlike plaques. It occurs classically in the genitals but also has extragenital manifestations with a variety of clinical presentations including a bullous variant. The purpose of this review is to characterize extragenital bullous lichen sclerosus, suggest that it may ...

Chancre of the Tongue: Two Case Reports.

An Indian' N.C.O. was transferred to the venereal disease clinic at 93 I.G.H.(C) S.E:A.C., on Aug. 8, 1946, with a sore which he had for one month on the dorsum of the tongue. The blood Kahn test was positive. He denied any exposure or perverted sexual acts. In Match, 1946, this man had had seronegative primary syphilis; the penile lesions were located at 10 and 12 o'clock in the coronal sulcus...

Kissing chancre of primary syphilis

A 30-year-old heterosexual man presented with a painless erosion lesion on the coronal sulcus for 3 weeks. It was oval, indurated, slightly elevated kissing erosion with clean, smooth bases (Fig. 1). The lesion in the prepuce, being too hard to bend, would flip over all at once when the prepuce was drawn back (dory flop phenomenon). He was otherwise asymptomatic, and the inguinal lymph nodes on...

Shakespeare's chancre: did the bard have syphilis?

Shakespeare's obsessive interest in syphilis, his clinically exact knowledge of its manifestations, the final poems of the sonnets, and contemporary gossip all suggest that he was infected with "the infinite malady." The psychological impact of venereal disease may explain the misogyny and revulsion from sex so prominent in the writings of Shakespeare's tragic period. This article examines the ...

[Primary chancre on the chest wall].