Neurosyphilis:  Various Presentations

Kezban Aslan; Hacer Bozdemir; Şebnem Bıçakcı; Turgay Demir; İlker Öztürk; Tamer Çelik

doi:10.4274/Tnd.46794

Kezban Aslan¹, Hacer Bozdemir¹, Şebnem Bıçakcı¹, Turgay Demir¹, İlker Öztürk¹, Tamer Çelik²

¹Çukurova Univercity Faculty Of Medicine, Department Of Neurology
²Çukurova Univercity Faculty Of Medicine, Department Of Child Neurology

Keywords: Neurosyphilis, tonic pupilla, pseudotumour cerebri, polyneuropathy

Abstract

Neurosphylisis develops in about 5 % of untreated patients infected with Treponema pallidum. Spirocet, disseminates systemically hours to days after inoculation. Early invasion to central nervous system can be seen in infected patients without symptomatic. In these lecture we presented three patients with different complain. The patients have had; diplopia, headache and blurred vision, numness and slimming of legs.