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The Clinical Analysis of General Paresis With 5 Cases

Received June 27, 2007; revised September 23 and October 6, 2007; accepted October 15, 2007. Drs. Luo, Ouyang, Xu, Ding, and Zhang are affiliated with the Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, at Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Chen is affiliated with the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the University of Southern California. Address correspondence to Wei Luo, Department of Neurology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310009, China; luoweirock{at}yahoo.com.cn (e-mail).

ABSTRACT

General paresis is considered to be a "treatable" dementia, in which early diagnosis and treatment play a very important role. In recent years, its occurrence might have increased significantly due to the increasing incidence of syphilis. The authors report five cases of general paresis in order to draw attention to this dementia.

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