Autoimmune pancreatitis as a new clinical entity: Three cases of autoimmune pancreatitis with effective steroid therapy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1458-1468

  Ito, Tetsuhide ^a   Nakano, Itsuro ^a   Koyanagi, Shujiro ^a   Miyahara, Toshihiko ^a   Migita, Yoshikatsu ^a   Ogoshi, Keiichiro ^a   Sakai, Hironori ^a   Matsunaga, Shizu ^a   Yasuda, Osamu ^a   Sumii, Toshihiko ^a   Nawata, Hajime ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoimmune pancreatitis; Carbonic anhydrase II; Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE II; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHILIA; EXOCRINE SECRETION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS DUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CARBONIC ANHYDRASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 8544274485     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018862626221     Document Type: Article

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