Hutchinson's triad

Hutchinson's triad is a trio of classic congenital syphilis symptoms. They occur during maternal infection in II. trimester of pregnancy by transplacental transmission. It manifests in the child at school to adolescence, so this form of congenital syphilis is called syphilis congenita tarda, lues connata tarda .

Symptoms:
 * Blindness (keratitis parenchymatosa/keratitis profunda, corneal opacity);
 * deafness(hearing loss caused by inner ear injury - vestibular deafness);
 * barrel-shaped teeth (barrel-shaped incisors - the upper incisors narrow to the cutting edge, which is cut crescent-shaped).

Related Articles

 * Congenital syphilis
 * Syphilis (clinical picture)

Source

 * HRODEK, Otto a Jan VAVŘINEC, et al. Pediatrie. 1. vydání. Praha : Galén, 0000. 0 s.  ISBN 80-7262-178-5.


 * MUNTAU, Ania Carolina. Pediatrie. 4. vydání. Praha : Grada, 2009. 581 s.  ISBN 978-80-247-2525-3.