Neurosyphillis presenting as GBS: A rare case report

Syphilis is a chronic systemic illness caused by troponema pallidium. It is usually sexually transmitted.Neurosyphilis classically presents as meningovasculitis in acute -subacute stage and later on presents as tabes dorsalis and dementia paralytica.(1)However ,one of the less well described presentations include GBS. This is a rare case presented to us with ascending motor areflexic polyneuropathy suggesting the clinical diagnosis as GBS, later on confirmed electrodiagnostically as GBS, but CSF showing atypical finding such as pleocytosis which was further evaluated and ultimately found to have neurosyphilis.