Intestinal metaplasia in gallbladder correlates with high amylase levels in bile in patients with a morphologically normal pancreaticobiliary duct

Human Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1762-1767

  Sakamoto, Hirotsugu ^a   Mutoh, Hiroyuki ^a   Ido, Kenichi ^a   Satoh, Shin ^a   Kumagai, Machio ^b   Hayakawa, Hiroko ^a   Tamada, Kiichi ^a   Sugano, Kentaro ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Surgery   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amylase; Bile; Gallbladder; Intestinal metaplasia

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL REFLUX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DUCT; PEROPERATIVE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLASES; BILE; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449108145     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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