Lutz-Jeanselme syndrome

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Lutz-Jeanselme syndrome is a medical syndrom named after Antoine Edouard Jeanselme, Adolfo Lutz and Ludwig Steiner involving mobile periarticular fibrous nodules at articulations or under the skin covering the bone, seen in treponemal diseases, such as yaws and syphilis. Preferred sites are the knee and elbow or under the skin covering the tibia, elbow, or, more rarely, the ribs, trochanter, or malleoli. Causes can include syphilis and pinta.