Whipple's disease in a father-son pair

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 254-256

  De Leon, Maurizio Ponz ^a,b   Borghi, Athos ^a   Ferrara, Francesca ^a   Contri, Miranda ^a   Roncucci, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CASE REPORT; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 39049195243     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02934754     Document Type: Article

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