Whipple's disease: Our own experience and review of the literature

Gastroenterology Research and Practice

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bureš, Jan ^a   Kopáčová, Marcela ^a   Douda, Tomáš ^a   Bártová, Jolana ^a   Tomš, Jan ^a   Rejchrt, Stanislav ^a   Tachecí, Ilja ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ANOREXIA; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEILOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGH HEADACHE; CYTOTOXICITY; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENOSCOPY; DYSPNEA; ENDOCARDITIS; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GLOSSITIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACROPHAGE; MALABSORPTION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; NONTHROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; PATHOGENESIS; POLYSEROSITIS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PURPURA; REMISSION; REVIEW; SPLENOMEGALY; UVEITIS; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84880167219     PISSN: 16876121     EISSN: 1687630X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/478349     Document Type: Review

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