Meningovascular syphilis with fatal vertebrobasilar occlusion

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 338, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 169-171

  Feng, Wuwei ^a   Caplan, Michael ^a   Matheus, Maria G ^a   Papamitsakis, Nikolaos I H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection disease; Stroke; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASILAR ARTERY; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGOVASCULAR SYPHILIS; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; PONS ANGLE; RECANALIZATION; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

EID: 69349105201     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181a40b81     Document Type: Article

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