Natural course of autoimmune pancreatitis without steroid therapy showing hypoechoic masses in the uncinate process and tail of the pancreas on ultrasonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1063-1067

  Araki, Junko ^a,b   Tsujimoto, Fumio ^a   Ohta, Tomoyuki ^a   Nakajima, Yasuo ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; HORMONES; IMMUNOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC LESIONS; STEROID THERAPY;

ULTRASONICS;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; BILIRUBIN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA ANTIBODY; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LA ANTIBODY; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RO ANTIBODY; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRYPSIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; PANCREAS DUCT; PARENCHYMA; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 33746652206     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.8.1063     Document Type: Article

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