[Diagnostic significance of computerized tomography in cerebral manifestations caused by Whipple's disease]

A woman, who died at the age of sixty, showed different clinical symptoms for more than 3 years. The disease was characterized especially by neurologic and psychical symptoms and kachexia. By autopsy a cerebral manifestation of Whipple's disease was found. The difficulties in diagnosing the main central nervous disturbances were discussed. Besides the detection of SPC-cells in the CSF and in bioptical obtained brain tissue the diagnostical importance of CT-findings increases more and more. The hitherto known and in the special literature published changes of cranial CT in Whipple's disease were reported. In the present case the cranial CT was normal.