Case of immunoglobulin G4-related cholangitis accompanying autoimmune pancreatitis: Diagnosis by peroral cholangioscopy and treatment by endoscopic biliary stenting

Digestive Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 62-66

  Okano, Naoki ^a   Igarashi, Yoshinori ^a   Kishimoto, Yui ^a   Ito, Ken ^a   Sasai, Daisuke ^b  

^a Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY OMORI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

benign biliary stricture; endoscopic biliary stenting; immunoglobulin G4 related autoimmune pancreatitis; immunoglobulin G4 related autoimmune sclerosing cholangitis; peroral cholangioscopy

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC BILIARY STENTING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PERORAL CHOLANGIOSCOPY; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STENT; STEROID THERAPY;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860606472     PISSN: 09155635     EISSN: 14431661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2012.01276.x     Document Type: Article

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