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The aspect of trauma in the bone changes of congenital lues

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A prospective study of 112 children with syphilis showed changes more typical of trauma in 35 children than the usual radiographic findings ascribed to congential lues. No similar changes were present in a control group. “Battering” as such seems to be excluded, but the survey suggests luetic bones are more fragile, and part of luetic bone disease is traumatic in origin.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Paediatrics, Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

    Albert Solomon (Chief Radiologist) & Eric Rosen (Senior Paediatrician)

  2. Department of Radiology and Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

    Albert Solomon (Chief Radiologist) & Eric Rosen (Senior Paediatrician)

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Solomon, A., Rosen, E. The aspect of trauma in the bone changes of congenital lues. Pediatr Radiol 3, 176–178 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01006906

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