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Autoimmune Pancreatitis

Findings from H. Miura and co-authors broaden understanding of autoimmune pancreatitis

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 11th, 2008

"Little is known about the long-term outcome of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), and whether AIP possesses malignant potential. We report herein a 68-year-old Japanese AIP patient who rapidly developed systemic malignant dissemination of unknown origin, resulting in death," scientists in Tokyo, Japan report.

"The patient was diagnosed histopathologically as having Alp in 1999. After a 6-year history of 5mg/day of prednisolone therapy, a sudden onset of abdominal pain and convulsive seizure occurred, and the patient died on the tenth hospital day owing to diffuse peritoneal disseminations and metastases in the bilateral lungs and brain. Autopsy disclosed that the primary...

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