Autoimmune pancreatitis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 2670-2676

  Finkelberg, Dmitry L ^a   Sahani, Dushyant ^a   Deshpande, Vikram ^a   Brugge, William R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALGORITHMS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PREDNISONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845717314     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra061200     Document Type: Review

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