In order to describe the clinical epidemiology, neurological morbidity and treatment response of neurosyphilis subsequent to this outbreak, a retrospective study was performed. Retrospective study of all patients with a reactive CSF VDRL from 11/99 to 3/04 at the Medical Center of LA, New Orleans...
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OBJECTIVE: To review the nature of the presentation of neurosyphilis, the value of diagnostic tests, and the classification of the disease. METHODS: A retr... Timmermans,M - 《J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry》 被引量: 352发表: 2004年 Modern Neurosyphilis: A Partially Treated Chronic Meningitis ...
Inappropriate Use of the Cerebrospinal Fluid Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) Test to Exclude Neurosyphilis Only 3 of 2536 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) VDRL tests ordered at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1980 were positive. Of patients on whom the test was ordered, 226 had a positive or...
Neurosyphilis in AIDS patients: initial CSF VDRL may be negative. Neurology 1990;40:541-3.Feraru ER, Aronow HA, Lipton RB. Neurosyphilis in AIDS patients: Initial CSF VDRL may be begative. Neu rology 1990;40:541-543.Feraru ER, Aronow HA, Lipton RB. Neurosyphilis in AIDS patients:...
All the CSF samples were studied with both RPR and VDRL tests. RPR and VDRL test results were mostly concordant. The specificity of these tests for current neurosyphilis was 99% for the VDRL and 99.3% for the RPR, whereas the sensitivity was 70.8 and 75%, respectively, for the VDRL and...