GENERAL PARESIS OR CEREBRAL SYPHILIS?

Pure dysarthria, isolated facial paresis, or dysarthria-facial paresis syndrome.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Pure dysarthria, isolated supranuclear facial paresis, and their combination without somatic motor dysfunction are rarely encountered clinical syndromes and have not yet been clearly characterized. METHODS Thirteen patients (9 men, 4 women; aged 33 to 72 [mean, 56] years) with unilateral strokes who developed dysarthria with or without facial paresis but without somatic...

Changing Trends in General Paresis

THERE ix much recent medical literature on the subject of syphilis as a 'dying disease.' King (1958), in deploring the conmmonly held view that venereology is in decline as a specialty, suggests that the proportion of late syphilis may well have increased to-day since treatment has become easier to administer, and less systemuatic therapy is given in the early stages. Redmill (1959) emphasizes ...

Regional cerebral hyperperfusion associated with postictal paresis.

The pathophysiology of postictal paresis and other symptoms of Todd's phenomenon are not fully understood. Various hypotheses about its mechanism include exhaustive neuronal firing, desensitization, and active suppression. This case series demonstrates CT perfusion findings of two patients with postictal paresis that show hyperperfusion, increased cerebral blood flow, increased cerebral blood v...

Homolateral ataxia and crural paresis: a crossed cerebral-cerebellar diaschisis.

A patient developed weakness of the right leg and homolateral ataxia of the arm, caused by a subcortical infarct in the area supplied by the anterior cerebral artery in the left paracentral region, demonstrated by CT and MRI. Cerebral blood flow studied by technetium-labelled hexamethyl-propylene-amine oxime using single photon emission computed tomography showed decreased blood flow in the lef...

Gastric, Secretory and Other Crises in General Paresis,