Bilateral Ocular Myositis Associated with Whipple's Disease
Author(s) -
Vivak Parkash,
Hardeep Singh Mudhar,
Bart Wagner,
Didier Raoult,
Ruth Batty,
Hubert Lépidi,
John P. Burke,
Paul Collini,
Thushan I. de Silva
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ocular oncology and pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.444
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2296-4681
pISSN - 2296-4657
DOI - 10.1159/000448622
Subject(s) - extraocular muscles , tropheryma whipplei , myositis , diplopia , medicine , pathology , whipple's disease , biopsy , whipple disease , medial rectus muscle , muscle biopsy , magnetic resonance imaging , anatomy , surgery , radiology , disease , coeliac disease , intestinal malabsorption
To describe the clinical features of a Caucasian female patient with a history of treated gastrointestinal Whipple's disease (WD) who developed new-onset diplopia, with a description of the histopathological features of the extraocular muscle biopsies.
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