The assessment of pancreatic exocrine function by bentiromide test in patients with chronic portal vein thrombosis

Pancreas

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 355-359

  Egesel, Türker ^a   Ünsal, Ibrahim ^a   Dikmen, Günnur ^a   Bayraktar, Yusuf ^a  

^a NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bentiromide test; Cavernous transformation of the portal vein; Pancreatic duct atrophy; Pancreatic functions; Portal vein

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; BENTIROMIDE; BILIRUBIN; CALCIUM; GLUCOSE; LIPID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME RELEASE; EXOCRINE SECRETION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREAS SECRETION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; URINARY EXCRETION;

4-AMINOBENZOIC ACID; ADULT; ATROPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC FUNCTION TESTS; PORTAL VEIN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036829018     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-200211000-00006     Document Type: Article

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