Whipple's disease in granulomatous disguise: a challenging diagnosis with many histopathological pitfalls.
(2017) Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology — Vol. 470, n° 4, p. 465-468 (2017)
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- Whipple’s disease is a rare systemic illness caused by Tropheryma whipplei, a Gram-positive bacterium. Despite its abundant natural prevalence and reports on frequent asymptomatic carriage of T. whipplei, Whipple’s disease has an estimated annual incidence between only one and six per 10 million populations. This disease predominantly affects middle-aged white males
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Ghent University Hospital Department of Pathology
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Van Bockstal, M., Hoorens, A., Van den Bosch, F., Creytens, D., Verbeke, S., & Van Dorpe, J. (2017). Whipple’s disease in granulomatous disguise: a challenging diagnosis with many histopathological pitfalls. Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 470(4), 465-468. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-017-2084-4 (Original work published 2017)