| A Case of Acute Interstitial Keratitis with Congenital Syphilis. |
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Hong Bok Kim, Yong Sang Park, Si Uk Kim |
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Department of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. |
| 선천성매독환자에 발생한 급성각막실질염 1예 |
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김홍복,박용상,김시욱 |
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| Abstract |
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Since the time of Jonathan Hutchinson(1858~63), it has been known that over 90% of cases of diffuse interstitial keratitis occur in syphilitic patients. Interstitial keratitis is due to acquired syphilis in 4% of cases and the other 6% of cases due to tuberculosis, sarcoid, trypanosomiasis, onchocerciasis and other rare infections. After the introduction of penicillin by Mahoney et al. in 1943 for syphilis therapy, syphilis epidemy was sharply decreased throughout the world. However, during the middle 1950's the incidence of syphilis began to increase throughout the world. In Korea. the syphilis incidence has been increased since around 1963-1965 in parallel with the world trends(Kim and Lew 1968). A 6 year old Korean girl has been found to have bilateral acute interstitial keratitis and a positive serological test for syphilis. |
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