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[Brain stem and cerebellar atrophy in neurosyphilis]
M Rentrop1, P Häussermann, T Wilhelm
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der TU München.
Der Nervenarzt
|August 25, 2001
Abstract:
A 54-year-old man suffered from serologically proven neurosyphilis with tetraspastic syndrome and bladder dysfunction. He showed a pronounced psychopathy with cognitive decline and attention/concentration deficits. MRI showed slowly progressive cerebellar and brainstem atrophy, which has rarely been described over the past decades. During times of higher incidence and prevalence of neurosyphilis, infratentorial atrophy had been described occasionally, but today this clinical manifestation has been all but forgotten.