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ArticleClinical practice and cases in emergency medicine2020

Neurosyphilis: Old Disease, New Implications for Emergency Physicians.

Laura Mercurio, Lynn E Taylor, Angela F Jarman

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Article in Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Neurosyphilis presenting as ocular motor nerve palsy: two cases and a systematic literature review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Laura MercurioAlpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island.
Lynn E TaylorUniversity of Rhode Island Providence Campus, CODAC Behavioral Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
Angela F JarmanAlpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island.
Brown University · USUniversity of Rhode Island · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent epidemiologic data demonstrate increasing rates of neurosyphilis, particularly among those in the community of men who have sex with men and those coinfected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Here we discuss a case of early neurosyphilis and new HIV diagnosis in a 27-year-old previously-healthy trans woman presenting for the second time with progressive, ascending weakness and cranial nerve VI palsy. Emergency physicians should consider this rare but highly morbid diagnosis, given the rising prevalence of neurosyphilis among at-risk patients and those with new neurologic deficits.

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PMID32064424
PMCPMC7012537
OpenAlexW2991046098

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