Neurosyphilis with mesiotemporal magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 1813-1817

  Hama, Kiwa ^a   Ishiguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Tuji, Tomikimi ^a   Miwa, Hideto ^a   Kondo, Tomoyoshi ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Herpes simplex encephalopathy; Limbic structure; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mesiotemporal region; Neurosyphilis; Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PENICILLIN G; PROBENECID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISORIENTATION; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PUPIL REFLEX; REFLEX DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 56349130590     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0983     Document Type: Article

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