Weight loss, joint pain and abdominal lymphadenopathy as signs of sarcoidosis, but also of Whipple's disease;Gewichtsverlies, pijnlijke gewrichten en vergrote klieren in de buik als uitingen van sarcoïdose, maar ook van de ziekte van Whipple

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 620-624

  Deeren, D ^a,b   Vanderschueren, S ^a   Ectors, N ^a   Blockmans, D ^a   Bobbaers, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SARCOIDOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ABDOMEN; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ARTHRALGIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SARCOIDOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WEIGHT LOSS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0037471785     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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