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Whipple's disease confined to the central nervous system
B De Coene1, C Gilliard, P Indekeu
1Department of Radiology, Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium.
Neuroradiology
|May 1, 1996
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 gastrointestinal symptoms nor periodic-acid Schiff-positive inclusions in the jejunal mucosa. This case illustrates atypical Whipple's disease, confined exclusively to the central nervous system.