A case of autoimmune pancreatitis responding to steroid therapy: Evidence of histologic recovery

Pancreatology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 550-556

  Saito, Takeshi ^a   Tanaka, Shigeki ^a   Yoshida, Hitoshi ^a   Imamura, Tsunao ^a   Ukegawa, Junichi ^a   Seki, Tetsuya ^a   Ikegami, Akitoshi ^a   Yamamura, Fuyuhiko ^a   Mikami, Tetsuya ^a   Aoyagi, Yuji ^a   Niikawa, Junichi ^a   Mitamura, Keiji ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Chronic pancreatitis; Lymphocytes; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACINAR CELL; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; STEROID THERAPY; T LYMPHOCYTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PREDNISOLONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18744414751     PISSN: 14243903     EISSN: 14243911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066092     Document Type: Article

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