[Whipple's disease--a case of undiagnosed malabsorption with fatal outcome (author's transl)].
A patient is described who died from malnutrition due a rare but readily diagnosable malabsorption disorder for which effective therapy is available. "Terminal carcinomatosis" should not be diagnosed without histologic documentation; a treatable condition may be present instead.
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D008061:Whipple Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology
Morbus Whipple--ein Fall nicht diagnostizierter Malabsorption mit tödlichem Ausgang.