EDITORIAL COMMENT These studies inidcate that colonic histiocytosis is unrelated to Whipple's disease and emphasize that the presence of P.A.S.-positive histiocytes in the lamina propria of rectal mucosa cannot, by itself, be considered diagnostic of Whipple's disease.
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