Two cases of atypical Whipple's disease associated with cytoplasmic ANCA of undefined specificity

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 246-248

  Agard, C ^a,b   Brisseau, J M ^c   Grossi, O ^c   Pattier, S ^d   Espitia Thibault, A ^a   Le Goff, B ^c   Audrain, M ^a   Ponge, T ^a   Hamidou, M ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Hotel Dieu ^*  (France)

^d Laennec Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LETTER; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; ARTHRITIS; BRAIN DISEASES; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 84860550922     PISSN: 03009742     EISSN: 15027732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03009742.2011.648656     Document Type: Letter

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