title: Rapidly progressive Whipple's disease of the central nervous system.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, The Melbourne Neuroscience, Centre, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Niekrash
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McLean
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaye
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hjorth
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Desmond
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sinicaks
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonzales