ReviewInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2022
Locked-in Syndrome Due to Meningovascular Syphilis: A Case Report and Literature Review.
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- Syphilis and cerebral stroke: a case report and systematic review.Neurological research and practice · 2026Article
- Locked-in syndrome revisited.Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders · 2023Review
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Abstract
We herein report a 46-year-old man presenting with locked-in syndrome secondary to meningovascular syphilis. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated multiple acute infarctions in the left ventromedial pons, right basis pontis, and left basal ganglia. His locked-in syndrome was hypothesized to have been caused by thrombosis of the small paramedian branches of the basilar artery due to syphilitic arteritis. This is a unique case of bilateral ventromedial pontine infarction caused by meningovascular syphilis that presented as locked-in syndrome. Meningovascular syphilis should be included in the differential diagnosis of uncommon stroke, particularly in young men.
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