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Whipple's disease presenting as chronic wastage and abdominal lymphadenopathy
H D Friedman1, T L Hadfield, Y Lamy
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|November 1, 1995
Abstract:
We describe a 24-year-old man who presented with chronic wastage and massive abdominal lymphadenopathy which strongly resembled a malignant neoplasm. Biopsy of mesenteric lymph nodes with ancillary studies led to the correct diagnosis of Whipple's disease. These symptoms began 2 months after the patient returned from military service in the Persian Gulf.