High-rate pulmonary involvement in autoimmune pancreatitis

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-61

  Hirano, Kenji ^a,b   Kawabe, T ^b   Komatsu, Y ^b   Matsubara, S ^b   Togawa, O ^b   Arizumi, T ^b   Yamamoto, N ^b   Nakai, Y ^b   Sasahira, N ^b   Tsujino, T ^b   Toda, N ^b   Isayama, H ^b   Tada, M ^b   Omata, M ^b  

^a MITSUI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4; Interstitial pneumonia; KL 6

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE;

AGED; ANOXIA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PANCREATITIS; PREDNISOLONE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 33644844179     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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