Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 1 , Page 147, January 2004

Images in emergency medicine

Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA

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Diagnosis 

Secondary syphilis with Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

Patients with this reaction are treated with fluids and, in severe cases, steroids may be helpful. Patients will improve over an 8-hour period.

PII: S0196-0644(03)01252-6

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.12.003

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 43, Issue 1 , Page 147, January 2004