Whipple disease: Clinical review of 52 cases

Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 170-184

  Durand, Denis Vital ^a   Lecomte, Claire ^a   Cathebras, Pascal ^b   Rousset, Hugues ^b   Godeau, Pierre ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0030995066     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199705000-00003     Document Type: Article

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