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  #1

Reason for polyuria in tabes dorsalis....Can anyone please explain this to me.sad

  #2

No one....shaking headshaking head

  #3

are you sure you mean polyuria and not incontinence? because they have urinary incontinence.

  #4

....or retention
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  #5

Well as per the lectures in kaplan neurology it says three Ps....
Paresthesia
pain
polyuria

  #6

this is the question earlier posted in same form:

50 year old man develop pain in both legs altered sensation of touch in soles of both feet and increased tenderness to urinate paticularly at night.When he walks to the busstop in morning his gait is unsteady.What else might you expect to observe in this patient?
1.pupil that accomodate but don't react to light
2.ALS
3.hyperactive stress reflex
4.Subacute combine degeneration
5horner's syndrome

  #7

1.pupil that accomodate but don't react to light


  #8

The pain which is referred by Kaplan maybe of some other origin cos the Tabes specifically takes out Dorsal Pathway.








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