Whipple disease confined to the central nervous system presenting as a solitary frontal tumor: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 336-339

  Löhr, Mario ^a   Stenzel, Werner ^a   Plum, Georg ^a   Gross, Wulf Peter ^a   Deckert, Martina ^a   Klug, Norfrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Encephalitis; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple disease

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; RNA;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 3242773661     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2004.101.2.0336     Document Type: Article

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