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Recent advances in autoimmune pancreatitis.
Gut - 1 Dec 2009
Park D H, Kim M-H, Chari S T
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is distinct from calcifying and obstructive forms of chronic pancreatitis. Clinically and histologically it has two distinct subsets: (i) lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing pancreatitis or type 1 AIP which appears to be a systemic disease characterised by abundant infiltration of affected organs with immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-positive plasma cells and (2) duct-centric or type 2 AIP...
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