Effective steroid pulse therapy for the biliary stenosis caused by autoimmune pancreatitis [23]

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 220-221

  Matsushita, Mitsunobu ^a   Yamashina, Masao ^a   Ikeura, Tsukasa ^a   Shimatani, Masaaki ^a   Uchida, Kazushige ^a   Takaoka, Makoto ^a   Okazaki, Kazuichi ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETTER; PANCREAS; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 33846044707     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.00916.x     Document Type: Letter

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