Incidence of the focal type of autoimmune pancreatitis in chronic pancreatitis suspected to be pancreatic carcinoma: Experience of a single tertiary cancer center

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 110-116

  Kajiwara, Masatoshi ^a   Gotohda, Naoto ^a   Konishi, Masaru ^a   Nakagohri, Toshio ^a   Takahashi, Shinichiro ^a   Kojima, Motohiro ^a   Kinoshita, Taira ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Focal type; Pancreatic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37549040602     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520701529238     Document Type: Article

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