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To the Editor: The Image in Clinical Medicine involving syphilitic gummas in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection who presented with focal seizures (Oct. 10 issue)¹ caused us much concern. Our concern was heightened by the letter from Suarez et al. about a syphilitic gumma in an HIV-negative patient with focal seizures.² Both patients had important focal neurologic findings coupled with severely abnormal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings (in the case of the HIV-positive patient, there was a clear mass effect from the lesions and subfalcine herniation). Both patients underwent a lumbar puncture on the basis of which, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Cerebral Syphilitic Gumma in an HIV-Negative Patient Presenting as Prolonged Focal Motor Status Epilepticus
Suarez J. I., Mlakar D., Snodgrass S. M.
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N Engl J Med 1996; 335:1159-1160, Oct 10, 1996. Correspondence

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