Acute bilateral inferior cerebellar infarction in a patient with neurosyphilis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 953-956

  Umashankar, Gopalan ^a   Gupta, Vivek ^a   Harik, Sami I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; SYPHILIS; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; VOMITING;

ADULT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROSYPHILIS;

EID: 2942534701     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.6.953     Document Type: Article

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