Whipple's disease with normal duodenal histology and ankylosing spondylitis;Morbus Whipple mit normaler dünndarmhistologie bei ankylosierender spondylitis

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 127-130

  Ahmadi Simab, K ^a   Schnitzler, Paul ^b  

^a Regio Klinikum Wedel   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bechterew's disease; Biopsy; Duodenum; PCR; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DICLOFENAC; ETANERCEPT; IBUPROFEN; METHOTREXATE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TNFR FC FUSION PROTEIN; TNFR-FC FUSION PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BIOPSY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ANTAGONISM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOPSY; CEFTRIAXONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DICLOFENAC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUODENUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; TROPHERYMA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 58949094468     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: 14394413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1123969     Document Type: Article

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