[Whipple's disease--a case study]. / Morbus Whipple--Eine Fallstudie.

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.