Medical condition
Necklace of Venus describes thewhitespots on the side of the neck associated withsyphilis.[2][3]
It is a type of leucoderma syphiliticum, appearing around six-months following the onset of syphilis.[4]
It is rare.[4] The term was coined byJean Alfred Fournier in 1906.[1]
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- ^Ferri, Fred F. (2022)."Syphilis".Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2022. Philadelphia: Elsevier. p. 1452.ISBN 978-0-323-75571-9.
- ^Mysore, Venkatara; Sacchidanand, S. (2016)."33. Sexually transmitted diseases".Dermatological Diseases: A Practical Approach (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Wolters kluwer. p. 185.ISBN 978-93-5129-546-4.
- ^abBhatia, Riti; Ramam, M. (2018)."2. Dermatopathology clues in pigmentary disorders". In Kumarasinghe, Prasad (ed.).Pigmentary Skin Disorders. Springer. p. 48.ISBN 978-3-319-70418-0.
