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Case Reports
. 2023 Jul 10;7(2):rkad060.
doi: 10.1093/rap/rkad060. eCollection 2023.

Recovery of hearing loss, depression and erosive polyarthritis after diagnosis of Whipple's disease

Robert Biesen  1 , Tobias Alexander  1 , Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester  1 , Fredrik N Albach  1
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Recovery of hearing loss, depression and erosive polyarthritis after diagnosis of Whipple's disease

Robert Biesen et al. Rheumatol Adv Pract. .
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Figure 1.
Clinical impressions. (A) MCP joint II/III swelling of the left hand. (B) Ankle swelling of the right leg. (C) T1-weighted MRI images of the right hand, showing erosions in coronary and axial planes. (D) Overlay of audiometry curves for the right and left ear, before and after 6 months of antibiotic administration
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