About the dynamics of morphological changes in syphilis stomach

Visceral syphilis has attracted the attention of medical thought in recent years. Clinicians and syphilidologists note: “over the past decades, under the influence of a number of still not sufficiently studied reasons, syphilis has clinically changed its physiognomy, that gross changes in the skin and bones of the tertiary stage of syphilis are less and less common” (R. Luria). Since 1910, says Finger, the number of secondary and tertiary syphilis of the skin and mucous membranes has reached a minimum and, along with tabes and progressive paralysis, syphilitic diseases of the aorta appear on the neural plane ”(cited by R. Luria). At present, the doctrine of visceral lues’e is beginning to be built. The chapter of this doctrine, devoted to lesions of the stomach, is far from complete, and therefore the reports of individual observations are still appropriate, which gives us the right to describe our case, traced X-ray for 2 1/2 years.