Autoimmune pancreatitis and biliary intraepithelial neoplasia of the common bile duct: A case with diagnostically challenging but pathogenetically significant association

Pathology International

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 481-485

  Ohtani, Haruo ^a   Ishida, Hiroyasu ^a   Ito, Yuka ^a   Yamaguchi, Takashi ^a   Koizumi, Masanori ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION MITO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Biliary intraepithelial neoplasia; IgG4 related sclerosing cholangitis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; K RAS PROTEIN; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 5AC; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT CANCER; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMMON BILE DUCT INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCIN 5AC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 79960713319     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2011.02684.x     Document Type: Article

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