## Abstract This report describes a patient who presented with fever, weight loss, diarrhea, and adenopathy. At the time of presentation he had a 28โyear history of unusually severe destructive polyarthritis. Duodenal biopsy revealed periodic acidโSchiffโpositive macrophages. Polymerase chain react
Whipple's arthritis: Direct detection of Tropheryma whippelii in synovial fluid and tissue
โ Scribed by J. Desmond O'Duffy; W. Leroy Griffing; Chin-Yang Li; Manal F. Abdelmalek; David H. Persing
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 317 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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