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Neurologically presenting Whipple disease: case report and review of the literature.

M J Buckle1, R W Ellis, M Bone, H Lockman.   

Abstract

A previously healthy male with subacute onset right leg weakness was suspected to have an astrocytoma as imaging showed a lesion. Subsequent biopsy showed the presence of foamy macrophages containing periodic acid-Schiff staining granules, suggesting Whipple disease as a possible diagnosis.

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Year:  2008        PMID: 18381382     DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2007.054312

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Clin Pathol        ISSN: 0021-9746            Impact factor:   3.411


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1.  Whipple's disease presenting with neurological symptoms in an immunosuppressed patient.

Authors:  Martijn Weisfelt; Erik Oosterwerff; Mirjam Oosterwerff; Cees Verburgh
Journal:  BMJ Case Rep       Date:  2012-06-05

2.  Fourteen years of severe arthralgia in a man without gastrointestinal symptoms: atypical Whipple's disease.

Authors:  Fabiola Mancini; Serena Sbaragli; Gilberto Colivicchi; Antonio Cassone; Alessandra Ciervo
Journal:  J Clin Microbiol       Date:  2008-12-17       Impact factor: 5.948

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