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Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature

Symptomatic neurosyphilis (NS) can have varied syndromic presentations: Meningitis, meningovascular and parenchymatous involvement. Non-tabetic syphilis affecting the spinal cord is rare and only sporadic case reports have been published. The variant of meningomyelitis known as Erb's paraplegia...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Chandramohan, Nath, Kunal, Kumawat, Banshi Lal, Khandelwal, Dinesh, Jain, Deepak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024583
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.132648
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author Sharma, Chandramohan
Nath, Kunal
Kumawat, Banshi Lal
Khandelwal, Dinesh
Jain, Deepak
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description Symptomatic neurosyphilis (NS) can have varied syndromic presentations: Meningitis, meningovascular and parenchymatous involvement. Non-tabetic syphilis affecting the spinal cord is rare and only sporadic case reports have been published. The variant of meningomyelitis known as Erb's paraplegia refers to patients of spinal syphilis with very slow progression over many years and predominantly motor signs. Primary optic atrophy occurs twice as frequently in tabes dorsalis as in other types of NS. We describe here a case of a 32-year-old truck driver who presented with Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy. This clinical overlap in NS is extremely rare and to our knowledge is the first case report of its type.
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spelling pubmed-40908582014-07-14 Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature Sharma, Chandramohan Nath, Kunal Kumawat, Banshi Lal Khandelwal, Dinesh Jain, Deepak Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report Symptomatic neurosyphilis (NS) can have varied syndromic presentations: Meningitis, meningovascular and parenchymatous involvement. Non-tabetic syphilis affecting the spinal cord is rare and only sporadic case reports have been published. The variant of meningomyelitis known as Erb's paraplegia refers to patients of spinal syphilis with very slow progression over many years and predominantly motor signs. Primary optic atrophy occurs twice as frequently in tabes dorsalis as in other types of NS. We describe here a case of a 32-year-old truck driver who presented with Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy. This clinical overlap in NS is extremely rare and to our knowledge is the first case report of its type. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4090858/ /pubmed/25024583 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.132648 Text en Copyright: © Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature
title Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature
title_full Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature
title_short Erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: Unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: Case report and review of literature
title_sort erb's paraplegia with primary optic atrophy: unusual presentation of neurosyphilis: case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024583
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-2327.132648
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