Diagnosing Tabes Dorsalis in HIV-Negative Patients: Clinical Features, Neuroimaging, and Laboratory Insights in the Modern Antibiotic Era [PDF]
Infection and Drug ResistanceZhou Zhu,1– 3,* Huizi Gong,4,* Mingjuan Liu,1– 3 Hanlin Zhang,1,2 Leyan Yang,1,2 Xinyi Zhang,5 Heyi Zheng,1,2 Yanfeng Li,6 Mingli Li,7 Jun Li1,2 1Department of Dermatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical ...
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The Medical Kipling—Syphilis, Tabes Dorsalis, and Romberg’s Test [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Born of expatriate parents in Bombay, India, in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He received this honor when he was not yet 42 years old.
Setu K. Vora, Robert W. Lyons
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Tabes Dorsalis in a Patient Presenting With Right Lower Extremity Paresthesia and Cervical Spine Pain. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Syphilitic myelitis, also known as tabes dorsalis, is a disease affecting the posterior columns of the spinal cord and dorsal roots and presents as sensory ataxia and neuropathic pain and less commonly as paresthesia and gastrointestinal disturbance ...
Creech KT, Patel KM, Chaudhry U.
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Traditional Neurosyphilis in 21st Century - Tabes Dorsalis, Dementia Paralytica, Aseptic Meningitis and Unilateral Oculomotor Nerve Palsy in an HIV-Negative Man. [PDF]
Cureus, 2021 Syphilis is potentially a multisystem chronic infection caused by Treponema pallidum. Late symptomatic neurosyphilis has been less reported in developed countries, most often seen in untreated patients or in patients with HIV coinfection.
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A treatable cause of ataxia: Tabes dorsalis [PDF]
Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2014 Syphillis is a spirochetal infectious disease which is transmitted sexually. 1,2Incidence of this disease hasdecreased by penicillin age and gradually increasedsince 2000.
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TABES DORSALIS: IS THE DIAGNOSIS A CHALLENGE NOWADAYS? [PDF]
Journal of IMABPurpose: To present a rare case of neurosyphilis, the tertiary form of syphilitic infection, following adequate but belated treatment and manifesting with a variety of clinical signs and further progression to tabetic neurosyphilis.
Maya Danovskа
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Tabes dorsalis: a rare presentation of neurosyphilis in Western Europe. [PDF]
BMJ Case RepWe present a case of tabes dorsalis with delayed diagnosis in a carpenter who presented with a VIth cranial nerve palsy, decreased deep tendon reflexes, reduced sense of vibration and an unsteady gait. After deterioration of symptoms with almost complete
Bloch N, Brugger F, Notter J.
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Tabes dorsalis – a disease that must not be forgotten
Przegląd Dermatologiczny, 2018 Introduction. nervous invaded Treponema pallidum at any stage syphilis. Objective. To present a case of tabes dorsalis, which developed in a patient with undiagnosed and untreated syphilis. Case report.
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Significance of the combined tests application in serum and liquor of patients with suspected neurosyphilis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2007 Background. Tertiary syphilis develops in 8-40% of untreated patients. It is most commonly manifested in the form of neurosyphilis, which can be asymptomatic taking the form of tabes dorsalis or progressive paralyze. Nowadays, in the developed countries,
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Neurosyphilis presenting with Guillain–Barre syndrome: a case report [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2023 Background Syphilis is associated with a wide variety of systemic presentations, earning it the moniker “The great mimicker”. Neurosyphilis is classically associated with meningovasculitis in the acute-subacute stage and tabes dorsalis and dementia ...
Hoameng Ung, Dominic Ferrey
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