Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of autoimmune pancreatitis: Diagnostic criteria and pitfalls

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1464-1471

  Deshpande, Vikram ^a   Mino Kenudson, Mari ^a   Brugge, William R ^a   Pitman, Martha B ^a   Fernandez Del Castillo, Carlos ^a   Warshaw, Andrew L ^a   Lauwers, Gregory Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Cytology; Endoscopic ultrasound; Fine needle aspiration biopsy; Sclerosing pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACINAR CELL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREATITIS; ULTRASOUND; VOMITING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 25844444481     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000173656.49557.48     Document Type: Article

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