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Case and Research Letter
Secondary Syphilis-Induced Anetoderma
Anetoderma inducida por sífilis secundaria
J. Barbosa
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, A.L. João, A. João, C. Fernandes
Dermatology and Venereology Department, Hospital de Santo António dos Capuchos, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, Lisbon, Portugal
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    "textoCompleto" => "<span class="elsevierStyleSections"><p id="par0005" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Anetoderma is a rare&#44; benign disorder characterized microscopically by the loss of mid-dermal elastic fibers&#44; resulting in well-circumscribed&#44; skin-colored or gray-white atrophic macules or patches with a &#8220;sac-like&#8221; appearance&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Anetoderma is classically divided into primary &#40;idiopathic&#41; and secondary anetoderma&#44; with the former occurring in areas of previously normal skin and the latter developing at the site of a previous dermatosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Secondary anetoderma has been associated with a broad spectrum of autoimmune&#44; infectious&#44; neoplastic and inflammatory dermatosis&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0030"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a></p><p id="par0010" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">An otherwise healthy 35-year-old Indian man presented with a two-month history of multiple disseminated asymptomatic skin lesions&#46; He had sex with women and reported multiple sex partners in the previous six months&#46; No drug or medication use was elicited&#46; He also denied any constitutional symptoms such as fever&#44; malaise&#44; or weight loss&#46; On physical examination&#44; there were multiple well-defined erythematous-violaceous&#44; infiltrated&#44; papules&#44; plaques and nodules&#44; symmetrically distributed on the face&#44; neck&#44; trunk and arms &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>A&#44; B&#41;&#46; Palmoplantar region and mucous membranes were not affected&#46; Examination was otherwise unremarkable&#44; without evidence of lymphadenopathy&#46; Laboratory workup revealed a positive venereal disease research laboratory &#40;VDRL&#41; test result with a titer of 1&#58;16 and a positive treponema pallidum hemagglutination &#40;TPHA&#41;&#46; Complete blood count and comprehensive metabolic panel were within reference range&#46; Screening of other sexually transmitted diseases including human immunodeficiency virus &#40;HIV&#41;&#44; hepatitis C and hepatitis B virus was negative&#46; Skin biopsy of an infiltrated erythematous plaque of the trunk was performed&#46; Routine histopathological examination revealed a dense perivascular and periadnexal granulomatous infiltrate with plasma cells and histiocytes located in the superficial and deep dermis &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>C&#41;&#46; Immunostaining using a polyclonal antibody for Treponema pallidum revealed the presence of multiple perivascular and intraepidermal spirochetes &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0005">Fig&#46; 1</a>D&#41;&#46; Clinical&#44; laboratory and histopathologic findings were thus compatible with the diagnosis of secondary syphilis&#46; The patient was treated with a single dose of 2&#46;4 million units of intramuscular benzathine penicillin G and clinical improvement was observed&#46; However&#44; six months later the patient presented to the clinic with asymptomatic&#44; atrophic&#44; wrinkled&#44; skin-colored papules and plaques on the same locations that were previously affected by the syphilitic rash &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0010">Fig&#46; 2</a>&#41;&#46; VDRL and viral serologies were negative&#46; Skin biopsy was performed and histopathological examination with elastic tissue staining revealed a significant reduction of elastic fibers and a mild superficial perivascular lymphocytic infiltrate &#40;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#fig0015">Fig&#46; 3</a>&#41;&#46; As such&#44; clinical and histopathological findings confirmed the diagnosis of anetoderma due to secondary syphilis&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Clinical manifestations of secondary syphilis can be varied and often represent a diagnostic challenge&#46; The most commonly observed clinical presentation &#40;80&#37;&#41; is a generalized&#44; non-pruritic papulosquamous eruption that typically affects palms and soles&#44; accompanied by flu-like symptoms and generalized lymphadenopathy&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> However&#44; a broad spectrum of cutaneous manifestations has been described in literature&#44; frequently leading to misdiagnosis and&#44; for that reason&#44; secondary syphilis has been known as the &#8220;great imitator&#8221;&#46; Notably&#44; papulonodular presentation of secondary syphilis is uncommon&#44; with no more than 30 reported cases&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0040"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> In our patient&#44; differential diagnosis included cutaneous lymphoma&#44; subacute cutaneous lupus erythematous&#44; Sweet syndrome and cutaneous sarcoidosis&#46; Those were excluded by clinical history&#44; laboratory investigations and routine histopathology&#46; At the time of diagnosis of syphilis&#44; there was no other dermatologic process that could be the cause of anetoderma&#46;</p><p id="par0020" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Usually&#44; after appropriate treatment with penicillin&#44; syphilitic lesions resolve without scarring&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Secondary anetoderma due to syphilis has been poorly mentioned in literature&#46; It may present in all stages of the disease&#44; although it seems to be more common on the secondary stage and in HIV-infected patients&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0045"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> Even though there are multiple diseases that can evolve to anetoderma&#44; its pathophysiology is still not fully understood&#46; The decrease in elastic tissue may be due to either defective elastin synthesis&#44; uncontrolled production of elastolytic enzymes&#44; loss of elastolytic enzyme inhibitors&#44; elastophagocytosis or degeneration of elastic fibers secondary to local ischemia induced by microthrombosis in dermal vessels&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> In addition&#44; demonstration of fragmented elastic fibers present within macrophages by electron microscopic examination suggests that granulomatous diseases could evolve to anetoderma&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0035"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> Our case supports this hypothesis&#44; since it presented with a granulomatous pattern in histopathological examination of syphilitic skin lesions&#46;</p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">There is no satisfactory treatment available for established anetoderma lesions&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> Cryotherapy&#44; intralesional steroids and resurfacing laser have been used with variable success&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> Since the problem was solely cosmetic in nature&#44; our patient declined any treatment attempt&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In conclusion&#44; 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