Ebner W
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1983 Dec 23;95(24):894-8.
Whipple's disease is rare. The majority of patients are men. Before the advent of antibiotics the disease was almost invariably fatal. Now fewer deaths are recorded. We report about a typical case with the additional signs of sacro-iliitis, so that at first the false diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis was made.