Isolated central nervous system Whipple's disease causing reversible frontotemporal-like dementia

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 747-749

  Benito León, Julián ^a   Sedano, Laura F ^b   Louis, Elan D ^c,d,e  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE MÓSTOLES   (Spain)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Frontotemporal dementia; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; IRRITABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 46949096348     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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