Is a 2-week steroid trial after initial negative investigation for malignancy useful in differentiating autoimmune pancreatitis from pancreatic cancer? A prospective outcome study

Gut

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1704-1712

  Moon, S H ^a   Kim, M H ^a   Park, D H ^a   Hwang, C Y ^a   Park, S J ^a   Lee, S S ^a   Seo, D W ^a   Lee, S K ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEROIDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56549090999     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2008.150979     Document Type: Article

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