Autoimmune pancreatitis: Disease evolution, staging, response assessment, and CT features that predict response to corticosteroid therapy

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-129

  Sahani, Dushyant V ^a   Sainani, Nisha I ^a   Deshpande, Vikram ^a   Shaikh, Mehrine S ^b   Frinkelberg, Dmitry L ^a   Castillo, Carlos Fernandez Del ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IOPAMIDOL; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COMMON BILE DUCT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREATITIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTRAST MEDIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATITIS; PREDNISONE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149359692     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2493080279     Document Type: Article

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