It must be used with great care not to exhaust the patient, but this is true also in tabes. |
The morbid appearances in tabes mesenterica are not usually confined to the changes in the glands. |
The geographical distribution of tabes mesenterica is as universal as that of scrofula and pulmonary phthisis. |
Wherever scrofulous and phthisical diseases are known, there also are found cases of tabes mesenterica. |
The clinical presentation has shifted from general paresis and tabes dorsalis to meningovascular and atypical forms. |
In 1868, Charcot identified neuropathic joints with an unusual pattern of bone destruction in patients with tabes dorsalis. |