Isolated Whipple disease of the brain resembling a tumour

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-175

  Frazier, James L ^a   Quinones Hinojosa, Alfredo ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Central nervous system; Tumour; Whipple disease; Whipple's bacilli

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; GADOLINIUM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENCEPHALITIS; HEADACHE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENCEPHALITIS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 65449170796     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-008-0180-6     Document Type: Article

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