Orofacial Involuntary Movements in Neurosyphilis: Beyond the Candy Sign

BACKGROUND: Involvement of the central nervous system in patients with syphilis (neurosyphilis) may result in several neuropsychiatric symptoms. Rarely, patients with neurosyphillis may develop movement disorders with different phenomenology. Subtle orofacial dyskinesias have been reported in patien...

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Autores principales: Lenka, Abhishek, Thota, Naveen, Stezin, Albert, Pal, Pramod Kumar, Yadav, Ravi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29090106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8000DKM
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author Lenka, Abhishek
Thota, Naveen
Stezin, Albert
Pal, Pramod Kumar
Yadav, Ravi
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description BACKGROUND: Involvement of the central nervous system in patients with syphilis (neurosyphilis) may result in several neuropsychiatric symptoms. Rarely, patients with neurosyphillis may develop movement disorders with different phenomenology. Subtle orofacial dyskinesias have been reported in patients with neurosyphilis, known as the candy sign. CASE REPORT: We describe a patient with neurosyphilis who presented with severe orofacial involuntary movements. DISCUSSION: Our patient had orofacial movements at presentation and severity of the movements was much higher than the candy sign that has been reported in patients with neurosyphilis. This report contributes towards the ever-expanding clinical spectrum of neurosyphilis.
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spelling pubmed-56625342017-10-31 Orofacial Involuntary Movements in Neurosyphilis: Beyond the Candy Sign Lenka, Abhishek Thota, Naveen Stezin, Albert Pal, Pramod Kumar Yadav, Ravi Tremor Other Hyperkinet Mov (N Y) Case Reports BACKGROUND: Involvement of the central nervous system in patients with syphilis (neurosyphilis) may result in several neuropsychiatric symptoms. Rarely, patients with neurosyphillis may develop movement disorders with different phenomenology. Subtle orofacial dyskinesias have been reported in patients with neurosyphilis, known as the candy sign. CASE REPORT: We describe a patient with neurosyphilis who presented with severe orofacial involuntary movements. DISCUSSION: Our patient had orofacial movements at presentation and severity of the movements was much higher than the candy sign that has been reported in patients with neurosyphilis. This report contributes towards the ever-expanding clinical spectrum of neurosyphilis. Columbia University Libraries/Information Services 2017-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5662534/ /pubmed/29090106 http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8000DKM Text en © 2017 Lenka et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommerical–No Derivatives License, which permits the user to copy, distribute, and transmit the work provided that the original author and source are credited; that no commercial use is made of the work; and that the work is not altered or transformed.
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Pal, Pramod Kumar
Yadav, Ravi
Orofacial Involuntary Movements in Neurosyphilis: Beyond the Candy Sign
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29090106
http://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8000DKM
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