The elderly psychiatric patient with positive syphilis serology: The problem of neurosyphilis

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 333-339

  Bharwani, Ishwer L ^a   Hershey, Charles O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CSF; CSF protein; Neurosyphilis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROSYPHILIS; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

EID: 0031754917     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/CVL2-ABC8-UT45-AFT5     Document Type: Article

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