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Autoimmune pancreatitis--a new evolving pancreatic disease?
Langenbeck's archives of surgery - 1 Nov 2010
Okazaki Kazuichi, Uchida Kazushige, Fukui Toshiro, Takaoka Makoto, Nishio Akiyoshi
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INTRODUCTION: Recent advances support the concept of autoimmune pancreatitis as a unique systemic disease because occasional extrapancreatic lesions such as sclerosing cholangitis, sclerosing sialoadenitis, and retroperitoneal fibrosis show similar pathological features with fibrosis and abundant infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells, and are steroid responsive. Based on these findings, several diagnostic...
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