Meningovascular Syphilis Presenting as a Brain Mass in an Immunocompetent Male.
Overview
abstract
We present a case of a human immunodeficiency virus-negative man with syphilitic meningovascular disease with subjacent involvement of brain parenchyma leading to a mass-forming inflammatory lesion that was pathologically distinct from a typical gumma. Syphilis was diagnosed after tissue obtained from a brain biopsy demonstrated spirochetes consistent with Treponema pallidum and confirmed by 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing.
