Open AccessGeneral paresis of insane: A rarity or reality?
Author(s) -
Suravi Patra,
Ajaya Mishra
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.90346
Subject(s) - neurosyphilis , paresis , presentation (obstetrics) , syphilis , asymptomatic , medicine , psychology , psychiatry , pediatrics , family medicine , surgery , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
There is a widely held clinical opinion that syphilis has disappeared. Contrary to this, there are sporadic cases being reported across the country. The classical cases of neurosyphilis have given way to the milder asymptomatic forms, making them even more difficult to be diagnosed. Conventional presentation of neurosyphilis such as tabes dorsalis and general paresis of insane are read in textbooks only and rarely encountered in clinical practice in the 21(st) century.