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

BACKGROUND: This article reports a rare case of active neurosyphilis in a man with mild to moderate dementia and marked hippocampal atrophy, mimicking early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Few cases have so far described bilateral hippocampal atrophy mimicking Alzheimer’s disease in neurosyphilis. CASE P...

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Autores principales: Mehrabian, Shima, Raycheva, Margarita, Traykova, Martina, Stankova, Tonya, Penev, Latchezar, Grigorova, Olga, Traykov, Latchezar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22994551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-12-96

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517431/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22994551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-12-96

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