A Case of Autoimmune Pancreatitis Complicated with Immune Thrombocytopenia during Maintenance Therapy with Prednisolone

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1968-1971

  Nakamura, Akihiro ^a   Funatomi, Hitoshi ^a   Katagiri, Atsushi ^a   Katayose, Kouzou ^a   Kitamura, Katsuya ^a   Seki, Tetsuya ^a   Yamamura, Fuyuhiko ^a   Aoyagi, Yuuji ^a   Nishida, Hitoshi ^a   Mitamura, Keiji ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Immune thrombocytopenia; Immunoglobulin; Immunoglobulin G subclass; Obstructive jaundice

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PREDNISOLONE; PURPURA, THROMBOCYTOPENIC, IDIOPATHIC;

EID: 0242486828     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026170304531     Document Type: Article

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