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MON-FAH CHUNG, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1926;14(2):111-121.

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A rapidly developing syphilitic paraplegia is by no means a rare neurologic occurrence in China. Indeed, the frequency with which one encounters the disease here and its apparent rarity in the experience of certain writers in foreign countries, deserves attention. In a review of the literature, Cole¹ reported two cases of acute syphilitic transverse myelitis and concluded that this condition was rare, although he was of the opinion that "it is a disease much commoner than the literature would lead us to believe." Nonne,² while stating that "acute tranverse myelitis is not an infrequent form of spinal syphilis," found a total of only eight cases (3.8 per cent) of the 212 private and hospital patients under his care. Williamson³ in his list of spinal syphilis (excluding tabes) mentioned six of thirty-five cases or 17 per cent, but Orlowsky⁴ recorded nineteen of his seventy-two cases of spinal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant Neurologist, Peking Union Medical College PEKING, CHINA

From the Department of Neurology of the Peking Union Medical College, Peking, China.

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