Whipple's disease: A review of 19 patients from one hospital and a review of the literature since 1950

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1970, Pages 175-205

  Maizel, Harold ^a,b   Ruffin, Julian M ^a,b   Dobbins, William O ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Veterans Adiministration Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; BLOOD; CELIAC DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS; AUTOPSY; BIOPSY; CELIAC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS; WHIPPLE'S DISEASE;

EID: 0014784764     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-197005000-00001     Document Type: Article

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