Year 2020 / Volume 112 / Number 7
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Gastric syphilis and its importance for a differential diagnosis in HIV patients

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2020.6729/2019

Sergio Navarro-Martínez, Carmen Payá-Llorente, Manuel Vicente Planells Roig,

Abstract
A 41-year-old male, with history of HIV presented to emergency department with two months of abdominal pain and a weight loss. Radiological and endoscopic examinations where suggestive of gastric cancer. However, biopsies ruled out malignancy. The reaginic and anti-treponemal tests were positive, so the histological study was repeated with anti-Treponema pallidum monoclonal antibodies. The presence of spirochetes was confirmed. After three weeks of penicillin-based treatment, the gastric lesions and symptoms were resolved.
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Received: 03/11/2019

Accepted: 20/11/2019

Online First: 24/06/2020

Published: 08/07/2020

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