A patient with cerebral Whipple's disease and a stroke-like syndrome

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 607-609

  Famularo, Giuseppe ^a   Minisola, Giovanni ^a   De Simone, Claudio ^b  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral involvement; Stroke like syndrome; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CEREBRAL WHIPPLE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LABORATORY TEST; MALABSORPTION; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; STROKE; STROKE LIKE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ASPIRIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEFTRIAXONE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 18744392838     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520510015494     Document Type: Article

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