Primary cerebral whipple disease presenting as Klüver-Bucy syndrome

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 130-131

  Leesch, Wolfgang ^b   Fischer, Ingeborg ^b   Staudinger, Robert ^b   Miller, Douglas C ^b   Sathe, Swati ^a  

^a Division of Neurogenetics   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KLUVER BUCY SYNDROME; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY CEREBRAL WHIPPLE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYGDALA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLUVER-BUCY SYNDROME; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 58449102203     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2008.531     Document Type: Article

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