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View larger version (84K): [in this window] [in a new window]   A 26-year-old woman who was positive for the human immunodeficiency virus presented with focal motor seizures, a CD4 cell count of 238 per cubic millimeter, a rapid plasma reagin titer of 1:32, and a positive test for serum treponemal IgG antibody. One year earlier, she had received a single dose of intramuscular penicillin (dose and rapid plasma reagin titer not known). On admission, gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging showed multiple syphilitic cerebral gummas (Panels A and B). Studies of cerebrospinal fluid revealed a white-cell count of 20 per cubic millimeter (92 percent lymphocytes and 8 percent monocytes), protein concentration . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

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