Strategy for differentiating autoimmune pancreatitis from pancreatic cancer

Pancreas

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Kamisawa, Terumi ^a   Imai, Mitsuho ^a   Yui Chen, Pong ^a   Tu, Yuyang ^a   Egawa, Naoto ^a   Tsuruta, Kouji ^a   Okamoto, Atsutake ^a   Suzuki, Mizuka ^a   Kamata, Noriko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; CT; IgG4; Pancreatic cancer

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; STEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ACINAR CELL CARCINOMA; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOCRINE TUMOR; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SALIVARY GLAND SWELLING; SEROLOGY; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; DECISION TREE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UPREGULATION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; JAUNDICE, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 58149335430     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e318175e3a0     Document Type: Article

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