Difficulty in diagnosing autoimmune pancreatitis by imaging findings{A figure is presented}

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-108

  Nakazawa, Takahiro ^a   Ohara, Hirotaka ^a   Sano, Hitoshi ^a   Ando, Tomoaki ^a   Imai, Hideto ^a   Takada, Hiroki ^a   Hayashi, Kazuki ^a   Kitajima, Yasuhiro ^a   Joh, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS CYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STEROID THERAPY;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; PANCREATIC CYST; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845500570     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.03.929     Document Type: Article

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