chemamr
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Which is the diagnostic test of choice for intestinal form of Whipple´s disease (and what do you expect to see) ?
And which is for extraintestinal form ?
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| mdwannabe
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biopsy...u ll see lyphocytic infiltrate, AFB bacs,, eosinophils. Exxtra intest.. Arthritis?
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| bobby
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whipple's ..... lymphnode or intestinal biopsy show foamy macrophages PAS +
diagnosis is the same for all the forms. the small intestinal is almost always involved!!!
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| chemamr
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for intestinal form you are correct
But in extraintestinal I´ve read it was PCR of RNA of T. whippelii. (CMDT)
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