Clinical Case Reports (May 2024)

Case report—Depression with psychotic features as an atypical presentation of neurosyphilis

  • Aykut Aytulun,
  • Laura Sophie Grannemann,
  • Colin R. MacKenzie,
  • Alexandros Dimitrakopoulos,
  • Francesca Pessanha‐Schlegel,
  • Daniel Kamp,
  • Leonhard Schilbach

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.8836
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 5
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Key Clinical Message Recurrent depression with psychotic features is an atypical presentation of neurosyphilis. This case emphasizes the polymorphic clinical presentation of neurosyphilis and how it mimics affective disorders with psychotic symptoms.

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