Scleradenitis Syphilitic

Chronic erysipelas-like dermatitis is a malignant non-suppurative connective tissue infection of syphilitic origin that occurs after an initial period of illness with Treponema pallidum or another pathogen and develops gradually as the body responds to damage to body tissues. Erysipelas-like chronic syphilis infection appears as areas that may be nodular, pasty, swollen, and in some cases erythema-like. A distinctive feature of such an infection is damage to the scleral membrane of the eye, which can spread to the conjunctiva and then to the appendage, resulting in a specific lesion of the retina and vascular optical system

Sclerodenial syphilis is not the most popular infectious disease. Many people don't even know that it exists. If we examine this disease under a microscope, we can find the following signs: severe thickening of the skin of the eyelids and conjunctiva, it loses its elasticity. The patient develops erythema. And then the lymph nodes and eye muscles are affected. A person may encounter the following ailment - sclerodinial effusion. It can be liquid or curdled and is released in one day. As a rule, scleroderma is a secondary disease after the development of syphilis or in patients suffering from eczema. From the onset of symptoms of the disease to the appearance of the first signs, it can take from two weeks to one hundred days and it is diagnosed only when it has become a complication of another underlying disease.