General Paresis of Insane: A Forgotten Entity
Journal Title: Scholars Academic Journal of Biosciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
The manifestations of CNS syphilis are unfamiliar to a differential of patients with dementia to many physicians today as of the relative rarity of this condition .This is a classical case report of patient with syphilis and dementia in a 55 old female. General paresis of insane is a progressive disease of brain leading to mental and physical worsening .It is important to consider tertiary syphilis in the differential diagnosis of dementia. Conventional presentations of neurosyphilis such as tabes dorsalis and general paresis of insane are read in textbooks only and rarely encountered in clinical practice in the 21st century.
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Sharma SR, Hussain Masaraf, Debjit Roy
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