Cerebral Whipple's disease with a stroke-like presentation and cerebrovascular pathology

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 336-339

  Peters, G ^a   Du Plessis, D G ^a   Humphrey, P R ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LABORATORY TEST; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0036724891     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.73.3.336     Document Type: Article

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