Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis

A 69‐year‐old man with left eye pain and visual impairment was diagnosed with syphilitic optic neuritis, who was successfully treated by penicillin. Although it is difficult to decide syphilis as the direct cause of optic neuritis, it is essential to diagnose syphilis in every patient with optic neu...

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Autores principales: Yamashita, Shun, Tago, Masaki, Nishi, Tomoyo M., Yamashita, Shu‐ichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9020172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35474972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5678
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author Yamashita, Shun
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description A 69‐year‐old man with left eye pain and visual impairment was diagnosed with syphilitic optic neuritis, who was successfully treated by penicillin. Although it is difficult to decide syphilis as the direct cause of optic neuritis, it is essential to diagnose syphilis in every patient with optic neuritis.
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spelling pubmed-90201722022-04-25 Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis Yamashita, Shun Tago, Masaki Nishi, Tomoyo M. Yamashita, Shu‐ichi Clin Case Rep Clinical Images A 69‐year‐old man with left eye pain and visual impairment was diagnosed with syphilitic optic neuritis, who was successfully treated by penicillin. Although it is difficult to decide syphilis as the direct cause of optic neuritis, it is essential to diagnose syphilis in every patient with optic neuritis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9020172/ /pubmed/35474972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5678 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
title Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
title_full Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
title_fullStr Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
title_short Unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
title_sort unilateral syphilitic optic neuritis without meningitis or uveitis
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9020172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35474972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5678
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