The diagnostic criteria for autoimmune chronic pancreatitis: It is time to make a consensus

Pancreas

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 279-286

  Kwon, Seunghyun ^a   Kim, Myung Hwan ^a   Choi, Eugene K ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune chronic pancreatitis; Diagnostic criteria

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; STEROID;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY TEST; PANCREATOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SEROLOGY; SIALOADENITIS;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC;

EID: 34247094231     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e31802eff5f     Document Type: Review

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