TY - JOUR T1 - A Forgotten Cause of Central Nervous System Vasculitis JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 655 LP - 655 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.080605 VL - 36 IS - 3 AU - PRAVEENA L. KAKUMANI AU - RULA A. HAJJ-ALI Y1 - 2009/03/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/3/655.abstract N2 - Neurosyphilis can affect the central nervous system in the form of either meningovascular or parenchymatous neurosyphilis. Presentation varies from no symptoms to meningitis, tabes dorsalis, and general paresis1. Treponema pallidum can invade any vessel in the subarachnoid space resulting in thrombosis, ischemia, and infarction. Meningovascular syphilis most commonly affects the middle cerebral artery followed by basilar artery, causing stroke-like symptoms in a young person that can be easily mistaken as primary central nervous system … ER -