A Case of Early Congenital Syphilis / 대한피부과학회지

ABSTRACT

We report one case of 1 month old male with early congenital syphilis Who represented the characteristic clinical features and laboratory findings including darkfield examindtion and quantitative VDRL test. The histopathologic findings of the patients skin biopsy specimen showed extravasation of erythrocytes and perivascular infiltration of plasma cells were found. in addition to the previous described findings by Fraser. He was managed by daily injection of 200,000 units of aqueous procaine penicillin for 8 days and then three injections of 150,000 units of PA.M at two days intervals with excellent effect