Early syphilitic lesions of the nervous system

Abstract

Having collected quite a lot of material on this issue (163 cases), MP Alekseev and KL Holshmid (Porm. Med. Zh., 1925, No. 3-4) found that in equal stages of syphilis, almost all those forms of damage to the nervous system that occur in late syphilis, namely, hemiplegia (due to damage to cerebral vessels), meningo-myelitis, meningo-encephalitis, disseminated encephalitis, Brown-Sequard's paralysis, tabes, progressive paralysis and especially often meningitis (141 cases out of 163).