The inflammatory pancreatic head mass: Significant differences in the anatomic pathology of German and American patients with chronic pancreatitis determine very different surgical strategies

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-110

  Keck, Tobias ^a   Marjanovic, Goran ^a   Fernandez Del Castillo, Carlos ^b   Makowiec, Frank ^a   Schäfer, Arndt Oliver ^a   Rodriguez, J Ruben ^b   Razo, Oswaldo ^b   Hopt, Ulrich Theodor ^a   Warshaw, Andrew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BLEEDING; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GERMANY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY PANCREATIC HEAD MASS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SPLENIC VEIN; STOMACH ANTRUM RESECTION; STOMACH OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR VOLUME; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS RESECTION; PATHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58749083075     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31818ef078     Document Type: Article

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