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[Neurosyphilis with multiple gummas and AIDS. Report of a case]
C A Maurage1, D Gambarelli, F Nicoli
1Service d'Anatomie Pathologique et de Neuropathologie, Hôpital de la Timone.
Annales De Pathologie
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
The incidence of neurosyphilis has been increasing since AIDS has appeared but acute gummatous necrotizing progression is so far exceptional. We report a second case of "quaternary neurosyphilis" in a 29-year-old patient without serologic nor CT scan evidence of treponema. Diagnosing neurosyphilis is particularly difficult in HIV-1 infected patients, specially in spirochetes-poor injuries.