Neurosyphilis and paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis: important differential diagnoses

J Neurol. 2005 Sep;252(9):1129-32. doi: 10.1007/s00415-005-0812-1. Epub 2005 Apr 1.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Blotting, Western
  • Brain / pathology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Limbic Encephalitis / diagnosis*
  • Limbic Encephalitis / physiopathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Neurosyphilis / diagnosis*
  • Neurosyphilis / physiopathology*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Seizures / etiology
  • Treponema pallidum / isolation & purification