The great imitator - Still today! A case of meningovascular syphilis affecting the posterior circulation

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages e1-e3

  Bäuerle, Jochen ^a   Zitzmann, Anna ^a   Egger, Karl ^a   Meckel, Stephan ^a   Weiller, Cornelius ^a   Harloff, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Meningovascular syphilis; MRI; stroke; vasculitis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; CLOPIDOGREL; LACTIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; DORSAL MIDBRAIN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL STENOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MENINGOVASCULAR SYPHILIS; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSYPHILIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARINAUD SYNDROME; PLEOCYTOSIS; POSTERIOR CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VASCULITIS; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; BLOOD; BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MESENCEPHALON; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PATHOLOGY; STROKE;

BRAIN STEM INFARCTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; STROKE;

EID: 84920696453     PISSN: 10523057     EISSN: 15328511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2014.07.046     Document Type: Article

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