Elevated serum amylase in patients with chronic pancreatitis: Acute attack or macroamylasemia?

Pancreatology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 114-116

  Gubergrits, Natalya ^a   Golubova, Oksana ^a   Lukashevich, Galina ^a   Fomenko, Pavlo ^a  

^a DONETSK NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Acute exacerbation; Chronic pancreatitis; Macroamylase; Serum amylase; Serum lipase

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CREATININE; MACROAMYLASE; MACROGOL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABNORMAL SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ADULT; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; MACROAMYLASEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACUTE EXACERBATION; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; MACROAMYLASE; SERUM AMYLASE; SERUM LIPASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AMYLASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; LIPASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PANCREATITIS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900493647     PISSN: 14243903     EISSN: 14243911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pan.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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