PCR analysis in the pathological diagnosis of Whipple's disease: Emphasis on extraintestinal involvement or atypical morphological features

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 318-321

  Gras, Esther ^d   Matias Guiu, Xavier ^c   Garcia, Arnald ^d   Argüelles, Rossmary ^d   Espinosa, Iñigo ^d   Sancho, Francesc J ^d   Sola, Rosa ^b   Martinez Araque, Maria José ^b   Conde, Jaime ^a   Teruel, Ana ^d   Prat, Jaime ^d  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI SANT JOAN DE REUS   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Extraintestinal Whipple's disease; Molecular pathology; PCR; Sarcoidlike granulomas; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL GENE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SARCOIDOSIS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0033021166     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199907)188:3<318::AID-PATH352>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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