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Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Mayo Clinic details research in autoimmune pancreatitis
January 27th, 2009
"Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a distinctive form of chronic pancreatitis that can mimic pancreatic carcinoma. In the past, AIP accounted for up to 27% of Whipple resections performed for suspected adenocarcinoma. More recently. with increased awareness of All' and reports of its steroid responsiveness, tru-cut needle biopsies are increasingly used as an aid in preoperative diagnosis," investigators in the United States report. "We noticed a distinctive patchy distribution to the pathologic abnormalities in many cases of resected AIP that could potentially interfere with preoperative diagnosis by needle biopsy. We studied 39 pancreatic resections with AIP, defined by...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-27)
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