PSEUDO-CHANCRE.

Pseudo-chancre Redux with Negative Serology. a Case Report.

Pseudo-chancre redux is rare and is defined as a gummatous (tertiary stage) recurrence at the site of the primary chancre (Stokes, Beerman, and Ingraham, 1944). The condition must be distinguished clinically and nosologically from chancre redux (monorecidive), which is an infectious relapse during the early phase of syphilis, at the site of the original chancre, from which treponemes may be rec...

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].