2014
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000001033
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Clinical Reasoning: The “Great Imitator”

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“…In four cases, two immunocompetent patients and two with HIV infection respectively, the chancre had developed only a few months before or even simultaneously to NS, which in all cases took the appearance of a meningitis with ocular or auditory involvement . In eight other patients, seven of them HIV‐positive, a maculopapular rash developed at the same time or a few weeks before the neurological manifestations, which were parenchymal in three cases, meningitical in three cases, meningovascular and gummatous in one respectively …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…In four cases, two immunocompetent patients and two with HIV infection respectively, the chancre had developed only a few months before or even simultaneously to NS, which in all cases took the appearance of a meningitis with ocular or auditory involvement . In eight other patients, seven of them HIV‐positive, a maculopapular rash developed at the same time or a few weeks before the neurological manifestations, which were parenchymal in three cases, meningitical in three cases, meningovascular and gummatous in one respectively …”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…10,56 In older subjects with a long latency period of infection or in patients who are immunocompromised, T2/FLAIR hyperintensities in the mesial TL areas that may or may not be associated with either atrophic or gadolinium-enhanced areas increase the likelihood that neurosyphilis is present rather than other etiologies (Fig 6).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…No caso em tela, o diagnóstico de neurossífilis foi respaldado pela história clínica prévia relatada no hospital da cidade de origem, pelo VDRL reagente no líquor associado a alterações comportamentais e psiquiátricas, e pelo exame de imagem compatível com processo inflamatório crônico do SNC, de provável origem infecciosa 5 . É importante ressaltar que o paciente em questão não possuía antecedentes psiquiátricos pessoal e familiar, respaldando ainda mais a hipótese de uma doença subjacente e a necessidade de investigação complementar.…”
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