Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 3
Letter to the Editor
Primary chancre in the rectum: an underdiagnosed cause of rectal ulcer

236-237

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4457/2016

Francia Díaz-Jaime, Carla Satorres Paniagua, Marco Bustamante Balén,

Abstract
We report the case of a 35-year-old homosexual man with previous history of HIV, with primary chacre in the rectum. We believe this paper is significant because the diagnosis of rectal ulcer is more common in recent years, however rectal syphilis is a poorly recognized entity, especially with primary chancre formation.
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Publication history

Received: 17/05/2016

Accepted: 04/06/2016

Online First: 13/02/2017

Published: 28/02/2017

Article Online First time: 272 days

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