WHIPPLES-DISEASE CONFINED TO THE CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM

Authors
DECOENE B GILLIARD C INDEKEU P DUPREZ T TRIGAUX JP
Citation
B. Decoene et al., WHIPPLES-DISEASE CONFINED TO THE CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM, Neuroradiology, 38(4), 1996, pp. 325-327
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging","Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neuroradiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283940
Volume
38
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
325 - 327
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3940(1996)38:4<325:WCTTC>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
We report a 49-year-old woman with a left parietal lesion, shown on CT and MRI as an isolated ring-enhancing mass. The diagnosis of cerebral Whipple's disease was made by brain biopsy; there were no gastrointes tinal symptoms nor periodic-acid Schiff-positive inclusions in the jej unal mucose. This case illustrates atypical Whipple's disease, confine d exclusively to the central nervous system.