A patient with cerebral Whipple disease with gastric involvement but no gastrointestinal symptoms: A consequence of local protective immunity?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 896-898

  Prüss, Harold ^a   Katchanov, Juri ^a   Zschenderlein, Rolf ^a   Loddenkemper, Christoph ^a   Schneider, Thomas ^a   Moos, Verena ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MEROPENEM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFUSION; DUODENUM; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GAZE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; STOMACH ANTRUM; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; CONFUSION; DUODENUM; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; PYLORIC ANTRUM; SLEEP DISORDERS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 34547614999     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.110908     Document Type: Article

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