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World J Gastroenterol. Mar 14, 2012; 18(10): 1015-1020
Published online Mar 14, 2012. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v18.i10.1015
Strategy to differentiate autoimmune pancreatitis from pancreas cancer
Kensuke Takuma, Terumi Kamisawa, Rajesh Gopalakrishna, Seiichi Hara, Taku Tabata, Yoshihiko Inaba, Naoto Egawa, Yoshinori Igarashi
Kensuke Takuma, Terumi Kamisawa, Rajesh Gopalakrishna, Seiichi Hara, Taku Tabata, Yoshihiko Inaba, Naoto Egawa, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo 113-8677, Japan
Yoshinori Igarashi, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Omori Medical Center, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo 143-8541, Japan
Author contributions: Takuma K and Kamisawa T contributed equally to this work and wrote the manuscript; Gopalakrishna R, Hara S, Tabata T, Inaba Y, Egawa N, and Igarashi Y collected the data.
Correspondence to: Terumi Kamisawa, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8677, Japan. kamisawa@cick.jp
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Received: June 9, 2011
Revised: September 13, 2011
Accepted: October 14, 2011
Published online: March 14, 2012
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