Hamada, Shin MD, PhD*; Masamune, Atsushi MD, PhD*; Kikuta, Kazuhiro MD, PhD*; Hirota, Morihisa MD, PhD*; Tsuji, Ichiro MD, PhD†; Shimosegawa, Tooru MD, PhD* for the Research Committee of Intractable Diseases of the Pancreas
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From the *Division of Gastroenterology, and †Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Seiryomachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
Received for publication February 24, 2014; accepted April 24, 2014.
Reprints: Tooru Shimosegawa, MD, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1–1, Seiryomachi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan (e-mail: [email protected]).
This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the Research Committee of Intractable Pancreatic Diseases (Principal investigator: Tooru Shimosegawa) provided by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
