Whipple's disease in a man with weight loss and diarrhoea;Ziekte van Whipple bij een man met gewichtsverlies en diarree

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 413-417

  Smit, E G M ^a   Ferwerda, J ^a   Dekker, W ^a  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DUODENOSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BIOPSY; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WEIGHT LOSS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0033585892     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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