Open AccessA typical case of syphilitic spinal cord injury
Author(s) -
A. Yanishevsky
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nevrologičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-3067
pISSN - 1027-4898
DOI - 10.17816/nb48693
Subject(s) - syphilis , spinal cord , slowness , pathological , medicine , anatomy , neuroscience , pathology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , biology , immunology , physics , quantum mechanics
There is not a single poison, not a single infection that would produce such a variety of changes in the body as syphilis. Not a single organ is guaranteed against this terrible scourge of modern humanity. More syphilis does not spare the central nervous system, which, thanks to the modern conditions of life, is a locus mi-noris resistentiae. Damaging this organ, it produces an extremely variegated picture of both pathological and anatomical changes and clinical manifestations and course, depending on the diversity of the nature of the process, very different localization, speed or slowness of development.