Syphilitic heart - a case report
Heart and its great vessels are involved in tertiary syphilis in the form of syphilitic aortitis often 20 years or more after primary infection is contracted. In a 60 year old male cadaver, we found an enlarged heart with aneurysm of ascending aorta and semilunar septa was found protruding in to the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2013-01-01
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| Series: | National Journal of Clinical Anatomy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.njca.info/article.asp?issn=2277-4025;year=2013;volume=2;issue=2;spage=89;epage=92;aulast=Jyothi |