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Syphilitic Uveitis

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Syphilis is a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum. Syphilis is known as the great imitator since it can mimic virtually any intraocular inflammatory disease. Therefore, syphilis evaluation should be warranted in any case of uveitis that needs investigation. Ocular involvement may be the presenting manifestation of syphilis which may cause delay in the diagnosis and treatment resulting in profound visual loss.

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  1. Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 985540 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Mohamed Kamel Soliman, Salman Sarwar, Diana V. Do & Quan Dong Nguyen

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt

    Mohamed Kamel Soliman

  3. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Toronto, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Mostafa Hanout & David T. Wong

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Soliman, M.K., Hanout, M., Sarwar, S., Wong, D.T., Do, D.V., Nguyen, Q.D. (2016). Syphilitic Uveitis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_15-1

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