A CASE OF PROGRESSIVE DEMENTIA ON THE BACKGROUND OF LATE NEUROSYPHILIS

About the author:	
G.M.Bondarenko, I.N.Nikitenko, A.A.Bezruchenko, V.V.Kutova, T.V.Gubenko
	
Heading	clinical cases	
Type of article	Scientific Article	
Annotation	The objective. Prevention of diagnostic errors associated with the rare detection 
of syphilis in patients in neurological hospitals.
Results A clinical case from the practice of dermatovenereologists is given.
Conclusions. For timely detection of neurosyphilis it is necessary to conduct
a cerebrospinal fluid examination of all patients in the neurological hospital 
who have a positive result of non-treponemal and treponemal tests in the 
serum.
	
Tags	neurosyphilis, T.pallidum, dementia, diagnosis of neurosyphilis.
	
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Publication of the article	«DERMATOLOGY AND VENEREOLOGY» №2(92), 2021 year, 31-34 pages,
 index UDK 616.972–036.15–084085.28:615.849.19	
DOI	DOI: 10.33743/2308-1066-2021-2-31-34