Rapidly progressive Whipple's disease of the central nervous system.
We describe a patient with rapidly progressive Whipple's disease confined to the central nervous system (CNS). The diagnosis was made pre-mortem following stereotactic and open brain biopsis and confirmed at autopsy. Despite appropriate antibiotic treatment, the disease ran a fulminant course to death after nine weeks.
Niekrash
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Department of Neurosurgery, The Melbourne Neuroscience, Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
McLean
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Kaye
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A
Hjorth
R
R
Desmond
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P
Sinicaks
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V
Gonzales
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