Successful treatment of advanced-stage autoimmune pancreatitis-related sclerosing cholangitis [2]

Pancreas

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 434-437

  Kawabe, Ken ^a   Ito, Tetsuhide ^a   Arita, Yoshiyuki ^a   Nakamuta, Makoto ^a   Nawata, Hajime ^a   Takayanagi, Ryoichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STENT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750630076     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mpa.0000236731.46864.d4     Document Type: Letter

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