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Babinski's syndrome
Also known as:
Babinski-Vaquez syndrome
Associated persons:
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski
Louis Henri Vaquez
Description:
The association of cardiac and arterial pathology with late manifestations of syphilis. Of basic diagnostic importance was his observation that anisocoria may result from a syphilitic aneurysm of the aorta.
Bibliography:
- J. Babinski:
Des troubles pupillaires dans les anévrisme de l’aorte.
Bulletins et memoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1901, 18: 1121.
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