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Jang, Kim, Choi, Yoon, and Heo: Neurosyphilis Involving Cranial Nerves in Brain Stem: 2 Case Reports
Neuroradiology
Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology

Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology 2012; 66(1): 11-15.

Published online: 12 January 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.0000/jksr.2012.66.1.11

Neurosyphilis Involving Cranial Nerves in Brain Stem: 2 Case Reports

Ji Hye Jang, MD1, 2, Eui Jong Kim, MD2, Woo Suk Choi, MD2, Sung Sang Yoon, MD3, Sung Hyuk Heo, MD3

1Department of Radiology, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

2Department of Radiology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

3Department of Neurology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding author: Eui Jong Kim, MD. Department of Radiology, Kyung Hee University Hospital, 23 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-702, Korea. Tel. 82-2-958-8611, Fax. 82-2-968-0787, euijkim@hanmail.net

Received 14 July 2011       Accepted 21 October 2011

Copyright © 2012 The Korean Society of Radiology

Abstract

Neurosyphilis uncommonly presents with cranial neuropathies in acute syphilitic meningitis and meningovascular neurosyphilis. We now report two cases in which the meningeal form of neurosyphilis involved cranial nerves in the brain stem: the oculomotor and trigeminal nerve.

Keywords: Neurosyphilis, Syphilitic Meningitis, Gumma, Trigeminal Nerve, Oculomotor Nerve

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