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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease uveitis
Phenotype C0039128|syphilis
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PubMedID- 26504598 All patients included had an appropriated work-up depending on the type of uveitis with at least syphilis serology, chest x-ray, and mantoux test for granulomatous uveitis and hla b27 test for nongranulomatous uveitis.
PubMedID- 26451125 uveitis associated with tuberculosis, syphilis, human t-cell leukemia virus type 1, and toxoplasmosis were also differentiated from the negative results on serological test or antibodies for these agents.
PubMedID- 26069511 The uveitis that occurs with syphilis may be granulomatous or non-granulomatous [5], and it can affect one or both eyes in the anterior, intermediate, or posterior segments.
PubMedID- 26151369 The differential diagnosis of posterior uveitis is broad with ocular syphilis being particularly challenging to diagnose as it presents similarly to other ocular conditions such as acute retinal necrosis.
PubMedID- 20029143 In a case series of fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (fta-abs)-positive syphilis patients with uveitis, though anterior uveitis, nongranulomatous (in 62%), was the commonest presentation seen, iu was observed in 10.3%.

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