Differential diagnosis of pancreatobiliary carcinoma from autoimmune pancreatitis-related diseases: A report of three cases

Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 241-251

  Hayashi, Michihiro ^a   Arisaka, Yoshifumi ^a   Takeshita, Atsushi ^a   Tominaga, Yusuke ^a   Ki, Takayuki ^a   Masuda, Daisuke ^a   Hirokawa, Fumitoshi ^a   Egashira, Yutaro ^a   Tsuji, Motomu ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Higuchi, Kazuhide ^a   Tanigawa, Nobuhiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Bile duct cancer; Pancreatic cancer; Sclerosing cholangitis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PANCREAS ENZYME; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TUMOR MARKER; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAPANCREATIC BILIARY STENOSIS; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREATOBILIARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER ABDOMINAL PAIN;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81955164269     PISSN: 19416628     EISSN: 19416636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12029-010-9209-1     Document Type: Article

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