OBJECTIVE Cerebral syphilitic gummata are rare manifestations of tertiary,
meningovascular syphilis. No extensive characterization of these lesions has been …

PURPOSE To evaluate and describe the neuroimaging findings of patients with
neurosyphilis. METHODS The neuroimaging studies of 35 patients with documented …

Discussion Neurosyphilis is known to cause oculomotor nerve palsies either in the
meningovascular phase, due to small vessel vasculitis with resultant nerve infarction, 2 or in …

Syphilis, along with the recent increase of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients, has
also been on the rise. It has a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, among which …

Discussion Clinical or radiographic neurosyphilis occurs in 5% to 10% of untreated patients,
1 although cerebrospinal fluid treponemes can occur in approximately one-third of early …

Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by a spirochete (Treponema pallidum). The first
published records of syphilis describe an outbreak in the late 1400s in Europe during the …

Though infections account for a significant proportion of patients with ocular motor palsies,
there is surprising paucity of literature on infectious ophthalmoplegias. Almost all types of …

Isolated cranial nerve palsies are often attributed to lesions of the respective nerves along
their extraaxial courses. There are a significant number of reports of individual patients with …

There is a significant number of individual patients with ocular motor nerve palsies as the
only clinical sign of MRI-and, less frequently, CT-documented small brainstem lesions with a …

A 39-year-old female presented with a syphilitic cerebral gumma mimicking small
glioblastoma multiforme manifesting as visual impairment. Magnetic resonance imaging …