Case 3-2006: A 63-year-old woman with jaundice and a pancreatic mass

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 398-406

  Schapiro, Robert H ^a,b   Maher, Michael M ^a,b   Misdraji, Joseph ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLESTYRAMINE; HYDROXYZINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSURIA; ECCHYMOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; TUBERCULOSIS;

BIOPSY, FINE-NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DISEASES; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 31344479070     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059037     Document Type: Article

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