Unilateral mydriatic tonic pupil as an early isolated symptom of neurosyphilis

J Neurol Sci. 2014 Sep 15;344(1-2):219-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.06.007. Epub 2014 Jun 14.

Authors

Tadayuki Takata¹, Masaki Kamada², Kazuyo Ikeda², Kodai Kume¹, Yohei Kokudo¹, Tetsuo Touge³, Kazushi Deguchi⁴, Tsutomu Masaki¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan.
² Department of Neurological Intractable Disease Research, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan.
³ Department of Health Sciences, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan.
⁴ Department of Gastroenterology and Neurology, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan. Electronic address: kdeguchi@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp.

PMID: 24958595
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2014.06.007

No abstract available

Keywords: Adie tonic pupil; Denervation supersensitivity; Neurosyphilis; Oculomotor nerve; Unilateral tonic pupil.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Functional Laterality / physiology*
Humans
Male
Neurosyphilis / complications*
Penicillins / therapeutic use
Tonic Pupil / drug therapy
Tonic Pupil / etiology*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Penicillins