Autoimmune pancreatitis successfully treated with ursodeoxycholic acid

Internal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1142-1146

  Tsubakio, Kazumi ^a   Kiriyama, Kazuo ^a   Matsushima, Nobuyoshi ^a   Taniguchi, Masahiro ^a   Shizusawa, Takae ^a   Katoh, Tetsuya ^a   Manabe, Noriko ^a   Yabu, Michihiro ^a   Kanayama, Yoshio ^a   Himeno, Seiichi ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Fine needle biopsy

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; INSULIN; LACTOFERRIN; STEROID; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MONONUCLEAR CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS DUCT STENOSIS; PANCREATITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12244262219     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.41.1142     Document Type: Article

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