Whipple's disease without malabsorption: New atypical features

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 765-772

  Misbah, S A ^a   Ozols, B ^a   Franks, A ^a   Mapstone, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BLOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; JEJUNUM BIOPSY; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LYMPH NODE; MACROPHAGE; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; SYNOVIUM;

EID: 0031470782     PISSN: 00335622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/90.12.765     Document Type: Article

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