Whipple's disease: Report of cases diagnoses in our hospital

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-154

  Reyes Martínez, Carmen ^a   Cordero Fernandez C ^a   Torronteras Santiago, R ^a   Reina Campos, F R ^a   Marquez Galan J L ^a   Sanchez Aguera M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intestinal lipodystrophy; Malabsorption; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BICALUTAMIDE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; GOSERELIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOMYCIN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0347294697     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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