Refractory Whipple's disease with anaemia: First lessons from capsule endoscopy

Endoscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 659-662

  Fritscher Ravens, A ^a,b   Swain, C P ^b   von Herbay, A ^c  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; STEROID; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; JEJUNUM; MONOTHERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SMALL INTESTINE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ANEMIA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAPSULES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; VIDEO RECORDING; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 3242747626     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-814537     Document Type: Article

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