Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Pages 32-36, January 2007

Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Patients With a Rising Alkaline Phosphatase at Annual Follow-up

  • Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya
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  • Keith D. Lindor

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Keith D. Lindor, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905; fax: (507) 266-4531.

See Alvaro D, et al on page 415 for companion article in Gastroenterology.

Abbreviations used in this paper: CA, carbohydrate antigen, CEA, carcinoembryonic antigen, CT, computed tomography, ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, EUS, endoscopic ultrasound, MRI, magnetic resonance imaging, MRCP, magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography, PET, positron emission tomography, PSC, primary sclerosing cholangitis

 

 Supported by an overseas medical scholarship from the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University (P.C.).

PII: S1542-3565(06)01059-7

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2006.10.021

Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Volume 5, Issue 1 , Pages 32-36, January 2007