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Electron microscopic detection of Whipple's bacillus in sarcoidlike periodic acid-Schiff-negative granulomas
H D Spapen1, O Segers, N De Wit
1Department of Internal Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
We describe a patient with Whipple's disease without apparent intestinal involvement at initial presentation. Electron microscopy demonstrated the typical bacilli in PAS-negative lymph node and muscle biopsy specimens.