Whipple's disease with neurological manifestations: Case report

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 62, Issue 2 A, 2004, Pages 342-346

  França Jr , Marcondes C ^a,b   De Castro, Rafael ^a,b   Balthazar, Márcio Luiz F ^a,b   Malveira, George Linard S ^a,b   Pirani Jr , Clodoaldo ^a,b   Deus Silva, Leonardo ^a,b   Da Paz, Alexandre R ^a,b   Queiroz, Luciano S ^a,b   Damasceno, Benito P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Department of Neurology ^*

Author keywords

Dementia; Inflammatory bowel disease; Polyneuropathy; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 2642540212     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2004000200028     Document Type: Article

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