Pancreatitis and the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 20, 1993, Pages 1433-1437

  Lowenfels, Albert B ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^b   Cavallini, Giorgio ^c   Ammann, Rudolf W ^d   Lankisch, Paul G ^e   Andersen, Jens R ^f   Dimagno, Eugene P ^g   Andren Sandberg, Ake ^h   Domellof, Lennart ⁱ  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^h LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; DENMARK; GERMANY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027294719     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199305203282001     Document Type: Article

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