{Reference Type}: Journal Article
{Title}: Locked-in Syndrome Due to Meningovascular Syphilis: A Case Report and Literature Review.
{Author}: Yokota Y;Ishihara M;Ninomiya S;Mitsuke K;Kamei S;Nakajima H;
{Journal}: Intern Med
{Volume}: 0
{Issue}: 0
{Year}: Oct 2021 19
{Factor}: 1.282
{DOI}: 10.2169/internalmedicine.8269-21
{Abstract}: We herein report a 46-year-old man presenting with locked-in syndrome secondary to meningovascular syphilis. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated multiple acute infarctions in the left ventromedial pons, right basis pontis, and left basal ganglia. His locked-in syndrome was hypothesized to have been caused by thrombosis of the small paramedian branches of the basilar artery due to syphilitic arteritis. This is a unique case of bilateral ventromedial pontine infarction caused by meningovascular syphilis that presented as locked-in syndrome. Meningovascular syphilis should be included in the differential diagnosis of uncommon stroke, particularly in young men.