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Whipple's disease
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Whipple's disease [′wip·əlz di‚zēz]
(medicine)
A disease characterized by infiltration of the intestinal wall and lymphatics by macrophages filled with glycoprotein. Also known as intestinal lipodystrophy.
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Tropheryma whipplei is known mainly as the bacterial pathogen responsible for Whipple disease (1).
Tropheryma whipplei in fecal samples from children, Senegal by Fenollar, Florence; Trape, Jean-Francois; Bassene, Hubert; Sokhna, Cheikh; Raoult, Didier / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The differential diagnosis of granulomas in the GI tract includes mycobacterium, syphilis, histoplasma infection, gastric cancer and lymphoma, Langerhans cell histiocytosis, as well as Crohn and Whipple diseases.
Gastric sarcoidosis by Lenox, Robert / Southern Medical Journal
The morphologic differential diagnosis included Mycobacterium species, Whipple disease, and granular cell tumor.
Enterocolonic Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare. (Images in ... by Wu, Mark Li-cheng; Poles, Michael A.; Thompson, Andrew D.; Dry, Sarah M. / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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