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General paresis of insane: A rarity or reality?

Author(s) -

Suravi Patra,

Ajaya Mishra

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

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.

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