Neurosyphilis and the spinal cord: Then and now

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 912-913

  Berger, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DEMENTIA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS; NEUROSYPHILIS; NOTE; PARAPLEGIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STROKE; SYPHILIS; TABES DORSALIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMATOSIS; UROSEPSIS;

HUMANS; SPINAL CORD; TABES DORSALIS;

EID: 82955217193     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e31823928e8     Document Type: Note

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