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Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Studies conducted at H. Miura et al on autoimmune pancreatitis recently published
March 31st, 2009
"Diagnostic criteria for autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) have been proposed and used clinically because, despite its unique clinicopathological features, AIP does not have disease-specific serological tests for confirmation. However, diagnosis of a patient with pancreatic lesions mimicking cancer who deviates from these diagnostic criteria is still difficult," investigators in Tokyo, Japan report. "We present herein a patient with a variant form of AIP successfully diagnosed by fine-needle biopsy, whose response to steroid therapy was excellent. A 55-year-old Japanese man was admitted to hospital because of jaundice and pancreatic head mass. AIP was considered as one of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-31)
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