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CASE REPORT: A Case of Autoimmune Pancreatitis Complicated with Immune Thrombocytopenia During Maintenance Therapy with Prednisolone

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  1. The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan

    Akihiro Nakamura, Hitoshi Funatomi, Atsushi Katagiri, Kouzou Katayose, Katsuya Kitamura, Tetsuya Seki, Fuyuhiko Yamamura, Yuuji Aoyagi, Hitoshi Nishida & Keiji Mitamura

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Nakamura, A., Funatomi, H., Katagiri, A. et al. CASE REPORT: A Case of Autoimmune Pancreatitis Complicated with Immune Thrombocytopenia During Maintenance Therapy with Prednisolone. Dig Dis Sci 48, 1968–1971 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026170304531

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