Chronic pancreatitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 22, 1995, Pages 1482-1490

  Steer, Michael L ^a   Waxman, Irving ^a   Freedman, Steven ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; BENTIROMIDE; BICARBONATE; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CERULETIDE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHOLECYSTOKININ RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CHYMOTRYPSIN; ESTERASE; FAT; FLUORESCEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; OCTREOTIDE; PANCREAS ENZYME; PANCRELIPASE; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SECRETIN; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRYPSIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ACINAR CELL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ASCITES; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; PANCREAS DUCT STENOSIS; PANCREAS INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS STONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMAN; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 0029039212     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199506013322206     Document Type: Review

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