Serial imaging changes of cerebral Whipple's disease: From onset to the end

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-83

  Yu, Changliang ^a   Jiang, Anhong ^a   Yu, Yongqiang ^a  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CYSTICERCOSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL WHIPPLE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MYOSITIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 33846110845     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2006.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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