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We report a 49-year-old woman with a leaft 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.
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De Coene, B., Gilliard, C., Indeken, P. et al. Whipple's disease confined to the central nervous system. Neuroradiology 38, 325–327 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00596579
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