Autoimmune pancreatitis - A rare and difficult differential diagnosis to pancreatic cancer;Autoimmunpankreatitis - Eine seltene und schwierige differentialdiagnose zum pankreaskarzinom

Medizinische Klinik

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-162

  Breuer, Arnulf ^a   Benz, Stefan R ^a   Enz, Thomas ^a   Deubler, Gabriele ^b   Mörk, Hubert ^a,c  

^a Sindelfingen Hospital   (Germany)

^b Kreiskliniken Reutlingen   (Germany)

^c Krankenhaus Nagold   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PREDNISOLONE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847396487     PISSN: 07235003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00063-007-1017-4     Document Type: Article

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