Diagnosis and management of whipple's disease of the brain

Practical Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 311-317

  Penegyres, Peter K ^a  

^a Department of Neurodegenerative Disorders Research ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG COMBINATION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE SPASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RARE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; RARE DISEASES; SPASM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 54749131987     PISSN: 14747758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2008.156836     Document Type: Article

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