1. Whipple's Disease Confined to the Central Nervous System: Case Report and Review of the Literature
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Tuncer Süzer, Kadir Tahta, Nese Demirkan, Erdal Coskun, and Banu Cetin
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Adult ,Microbiology (medical) ,chloramphenicol ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,intestine lipodystrophy ,streptomycin ,Central nervous system ,oral drug administration ,Disease ,rifampicin ,Central nervous system disease ,Intestinal malabsorption ,minocycline ,medicine ,case report ,Humans ,human ,Whipple's disease ,penicillin g ,tetracycline ,Antibacterial agent ,Brain Diseases ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,business.industry ,Whipple Disease ,article ,General Medicine ,central nervous system ,medicine.disease ,neurologic disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Dermatology ,cotrimoxazole ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,ceftriaxone ,intravenous drug administration ,female ,Treatment Outcome ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Brain Diseases/*diagnosis/drug therapy/physiopathology ,Drug Therapy, Combination/therapeutic use ,Female ,Follow-Up Studies ,Whipple Disease/*diagnosis/drug therapy/physiopathology ,Drug Therapy, Combination ,business ,early diagnosis - Abstract
Whipple's disease confined exclusively to the CNS without systemic involvement appears to be very rare, with only 8 cases reported in the literature. We present here a further case of primary cerebral Whipple's disease in which the neurological symptoms were seen in the absence of systemic involvement and emphasize the importance of diagnosing this treatable disease.
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- 1999
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