Mass-forming autoimmune pancreatitis and pancreatic carcinoma: Differential diagnosis on the basis of computed tomography and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, and diffusion-weighted imaging findings

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 827-836

  Muhi, Ali ^a,b   Ichikawa, Tomoaki ^a   Motosugi, Utaroh ^a   Sou, Hironobu ^a   Sano, Katsuhiro ^a   Tsukamoto, Tatsuaki ^a   Fatima, Zareen ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b AL MUTHANNA UNIVERSITY   (Iraq)

Author keywords

CE CT; DWI; mass forming autoimmune pancreatitis; MRCP; pancreatic carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858729744     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22881     Document Type: Article

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