Necrotic pulmonary nodules in secondary syphilis
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Necrotic pulmonary nodules in secondary syphilis.
emergency department with worsening left-sided pleuritic chest pain, rash and painful eyes. Her symptoms had started about four weeks earlier with gradual left-sided chest pain. She had presented to the emergency de partment at that time, but after a negative chest ra dio graph, she had been sent home with a provisional diagnosis of pleuritis and instructions to follow up with her family physic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.091479