Intracerebral Whipple's disease diagnosed by stereotactic biopsy: A case report and review of the literature

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 203-209

  Mendel, Ehud ^a   Khoo, Larry T ^a   Go, John L ^a,b   Hinton, David ^a   Zee, Chi Shing ^a   Apuzzo, Michael L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; Dementia; Hypogonadism; Stereotaxy; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSOMNIA; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LETHARGY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUTAMEN; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0032958046     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199901000-00123     Document Type: Article

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