Tooru Shimosegawa

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus
nonrandomized-trial 2019
Journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.1007/s00535-019-01602-9

BACKGROUND: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a fibro-inflammatory disease of the pancreas. Early diagnosis and intervention, before CP becomes established and irreversible, are essential to improve the long-term outcomes. The world's first diag…

guideline 2016
Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] ·doi:10.1016/j.pan.2016.02.001

BACKGROUND: A definition of chronic pancreatitis (CP) is needed for diagnosis and distinguishing CP from other disorders. Previous definitions focused on morphology. Advances in epidemiology, genetics, molecular biology, modeling and other …

review 2016
World journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.3748/wjg.v22.i5.1800

The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has risen sharply in western countries over the past 4 decades. This type of cancer is considered to follow a transitional process that goes from gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) to Ba…

case-report 2009
World journal of gastroenterology ·doi:10.3748/wjg.15.1267

A liver tumor 35 mm in diameter was found incidentally in a 40-year-old woman who had no history of liver diseases or the use of oral contraceptives. Radiological diagnostics showed the typical findings of liver cell adenoma (LCA). Dynamic …