Neurosyphilis with dementia and bilateral hippocampal atrophy on brain magnetic resonance imaging

BMC Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mehrabian, Shima ^a   Raycheva, Margarita ^a   Traykova, Martina ^a   Stankova, Tonya ^a   Penev, Latchezar ^a   Grigorova, Olga ^a   Traykov, Latchezar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ALEXANDROVSKA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Hippocampal atrophy; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Neurosyphilis

Indexed keywords

OLIGOCLONAL BAND; PENICILLIN G; PROTEIN;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ANOMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANXIETY; APATHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONFUSION; COORDINATION DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DISORIENTATION; DYSARTHRIA; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FLUENCY DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPAL ATROPHY; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MONOCYTE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; VERBAL HOSTILITY; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSYPHILIS;

EID: 84866524803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-12-96     Document Type: Article

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