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VIGGO GENNER, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1936;34(2):255-264.

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The term paratherapeutic articular disturbances is used to designate morbid articular conditions which develop in connection with antisyphilitic treatment either during or subsequent to a series of injections.

Up to the present little attention has been paid in the international literature to this complication, and the few cases which have been reported have not furnished a sufficient basis for any decision as to which antisyphilitic preparation is concerned. Presumably the uncertainty is due partly to the fact that the therapy employed in most cases has been a combined treatment (as a rule arsphenamine and bismuth) involving two toxic factors.

So far as I have been able to determine, Max Wolf¹ has given an analysis of the largest number of cases. In these six cases the condition appeared in connection with treatment with arsphenamine and bismuth. Wolf took no stand as to whether arsphenamine or bismuth was the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

From the Dermatovenereologic Clinic of the Rigshospital, the University of Copenhagen. Prof. H. Haxthausen, M.D., chief physician.

Footnotes
Read before the Congress of Scandinavian Dermatologists, at the Ninth Session, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1935.

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