Clinical diagnostic criteria of autoimmune pancreatitis: revised proposal.

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Published in J Gastroenterol on July 01, 2006

Authors

Kazuichi Okazaki1, Shigeyuki Kawa, Terumi Kamisawa, Satoru Naruse, Shigeki Tanaka, Isao Nishimori, Hirotaka Ohara, Tetsuhide Ito, Seiki Kiriyama, Kazuro Inui, Tooru Shimosegawa, Masaru Koizumi, Koichi Suda, Keiko Shiratori, Koji Yamaguchi, Taketo Yamaguchi, Masanori Sugiyama, Makoto Otsuki, Research Committee of Intractable Diseases of the Pancreas

Author Affiliations

1: The Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan.

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