title: [Brain stem and cerebellar atrophy in neurosyphilis].
abstract: A 54-year-old man suffered from serologically proven neurosyphilis with tetraspastic syndrome and bladder dysfunction. He showed a pronounced psychopathy with cognitive decline and attention/concentration deficits. MRI showed slowly progressive cerebellar and brainstem atrophy, which has rarely been described over the past decades. During times of higher incidence and prevalence of neurosyphilis, infratentorial atrophy had been described occasionally, but today this clinical manifestation has been all but forgotten.
authors.affiliation: Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der TU München.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rentrop
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Häussermann
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wilhelm
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Heldmann
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bischoff
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Conrad
mesh_terms: D001284:Atrophy; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology*; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009494:Neurosyphilis / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Hirnstamm- und Kleinhirnatrophie bei Neurosyphilis.