Neopterin - A potential factor for differentiation between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 81, 2008, Pages 258-261

  Piecuch, Jerzy ^a,b   Rudzki, Marek ^a   Orkisz, Witold ^a   Świȩtochowska, Elzbieta ^a   Wielkoszyński, Tomasz ^a   Waniczek, Dariusz ^a   Arendt, Jerzy ^a   Sosada, Krystyn ^a   Zurawiński, Wojciech ^a   Ładny, Jerzy Robert ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Chronic pancreatitis; Neopterin; Pancreatic cancer; Tumor marker

Indexed keywords

NEOPTERIN;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPTERIN; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 41549146641     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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