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Syphilitic optic neuritis.
The broad division of syphilitic disease of the central nervous system into parenchymatous and meningo-vascular types has proved of considerable value, both in understanding the pathological processes involved in the clinical patterns of disease and in estimating their prognosis. Its application to syphilitic disease of the optic nerve has been neglected; for whereas parenchymatous degeneration...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1950
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.13.3.216