Tuberculosis of the pancreas presenting as metastatic pancreatic carcinoma

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-187

  Evans, James D ^a,b   Hamanaka, Yuichiro ^a   Olliff, Simon P ^a   Neoptolemos, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; Pancreas; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0034100239     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000018828     Document Type: Article

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