Autoimmune pancreatitis: negotiating the labyrinth of terminology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis

Diagnostic Histopathology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 253-259

  Kakar, Sanjay ^a,b   Smyrk, Thomas C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

autoimmune; IgG4; lymphoplasmacytic; pancreatitis; sclerosing

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAUNDICE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PSEUDOTUMOR; RETROPERITONEAL FIBROSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 46449120174     PISSN: 17562317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mpdhp.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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