Syphilitic meningomyelitis

Neurology. 1991 Feb;41(2 ( Pt 1)):325-6. doi: 10.1212/wnl.41.2_part_1.325.

Abstract

A 28-year-old nonimmunocompromised man developed secondary syphilis confirmed by serum and CSF findings. His course was complicated by chorioretinitis, extensive skin lesions, and spastic paraparesis secondary to syphilitic meningomyelitis. MRI of the spinal cord was strikingly abnormal.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • HIV Seropositivity
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Meningitis / microbiology*
  • Myelitis / diagnosis
  • Myelitis / microbiology*
  • Paraparesis, Tropical Spastic / etiology
  • Penicillins / therapeutic use
  • Skin / pathology
  • Spinal Cord / pathology
  • Syphilis* / complications
  • Syphilis* / drug therapy
  • Syphilis* / pathology

Substances

  • Penicillins