Mucous Patches and Arthralgia

Secondary syphilis-related oral mucous patches

A 50-year-old women presented with a 2-month history of sore throat and whitish oral lesions. She also complained of an asymptomatic ulcerative lesion on the labia majora, which had appeared 6 months previously and spontaneously disappeared after 1 month. Her past medical and dermatological histories were unremarkable. The oral examination revealed several serpiginous whitish oral mucous patche...

Syphilitic mucous patches: the resurgence of an old classic.

A 20-year-old woman was referred to our department for evaluation of multiple persistent erosive lesions of the oral mucosa that appeared 3 months before consultation. She complained of sore throat and a vague local discomfort. Her past medical history was unremarkable. Physical examination disclosed symmetrical erosive serpiginous hypertrophic plaques on the buccal commissures and buccal mucos...

Mirtazapine-induced arthralgia.

AIM With this article, we intend to corroborate the assumed association between mirtazapine and arthralgia by presentation of eight case reports, and we describe a possible mechanism of action. METHODS AND RESULTS The Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb received eight case reports on arthralgia associated with use of mirtazapine. These case reports are presented in short. We also prese...

Fever, diffuse rash and arthralgia.

Chronic fatigue, arthralgia, and malaise.

Accepted for publication 6 February 1996 Case report A 25 year old female veterinary nurse presented with a six year history of general malaise and severe fatigue. Associated with this she described frequent (monthly) episodes of polyarthralgia affecting all joints but with a predilection for the small joints of the hands and the wrists. When present this was accompanied by mild morning stiffne...