Diagnostic challenge in autoimmune pancreatitis: Beware of shipwreck!

Gut

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1646-1647

  Lévy, Philippe ^a   Hammel, Pascal ^a   Ruszniewski, Philippe ^a  

^a BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NOTE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; STEROIDS;

EID: 56549115287     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2008.158972     Document Type: Note

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