Whipple disease diagnosed by enteroscopy: first case report in Colombia of an underdiagnosed disease and literature review

BACKGROUND: Whipple’s disease is a rare systemic disease caused by a gram-positive bacillus called Tropheryma whipplei. First described in 1907 as an intestinal lipodystrophy with histological finding of vacuoles in the macrophages of the intestinal mucous. Usually the symptoms are localized accordi...

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Autores principales: Rey R., Margarita, Orozco, Luis Alejandro, Marrugo, Katherine, López, Rocio, Pérez-Riveros, Erika D., De la Hoz-Valle, José, Sierra-Arango, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32576148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-020-01302-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32576148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-020-01302-2

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