Whipple's disease: An endoscopic and histologic study

Digestion

Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 161-165

  Mönkemüller, Klaus ^a   Fry, Lucia C ^a   Von Arnim, Ulrike ^a   Neumann, Helmut ^a   Evert, Matthias ^b   Malfertheiner, Peter ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopy, Whipple's disease; Intestine, human; Malabsorption syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUODENUM; DUODENUM BIOPSY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; INTESTINE VILLUS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DUODENUM; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 50149092864     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000140978     Document Type: Article

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