Osteolytic lesions in early syphilis.

Many physicians are reluctant to accept osteo- lytic lesions as manifestations of early syphilis. With the advent of penicillin, the importance of a routine serological test for syphilis (STS) is some- times forgotten. Such a routine test is often a useful diagnostic tool in making a correct diagnosis, particularly when the clinician is confronted with one of the less common manifestations of syphilis. The need to emphasize these two facts-the occurrence of osteolytic lesions in early syphilis and the importance of a routine STS-constitutes the stimulus which prompted the following report.