Chronic pancreatitis

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 586-590

  Conwell, Darwin L ^a   Banks, Peter A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Biomarkers; Central sensitization; Chronic pancreatitis; Cortical reorganization; Elastography; Lithotripsy; Proteomics; Smoking; Stellate cells

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; ARTEMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CORTICOSTEROID; ELASTASE; INTERLEUKIN 8; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ALCOHOLIC PANCREATITIS; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIBROGENESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS SURGERY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; STELLATE CELL; STENT; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PANCREATIC FUNCTION TESTS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 55549112231     PISSN: 02671379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOG.0b013e32830b10fb     Document Type: Review

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