Syphilitic Meningomyelitis
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology
- Vol. 34 (12) , 785
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1977.00500240073015
Abstract
• A 58-year-old man was admitted with a progressive, subacute asymmetrical paraparesis. The patient denied a previous syphilitic infection, but spinal fluid examination disclosed a lymphocytic pleocytosis, hypoglycorrhachia, and a positive serologic test for syphilis. Clinical improvement resulted from a 14-day course of penicillin. Syphilitic involvement of the nervous system appears to be increasing in the United States and should be included in the differential diagnosis of progressive paraparesis.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Neurosyphilis. A study of 241 patientsPublished by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1972