Autoimmune pancreatitis with multifocal lesions

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-452

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

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; IgG4 staining; Multifocal lesions

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT STENOSIS; PANCREAS RESECTION; PARENCHYMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48749106129     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-007-1254-1     Document Type: Article

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