Autoimmune pancreatitis
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autoimmune-pancreatitis-173-4149026
title:
Autoimmune pancreatitis
text:
Autoimmune Pancreatitis (AIP) is an increasingly recognized type of chronic pancreatitis that can be difficult to distinguish from pancreatic carcinoma but which responds to treatment with corticosteroids, particularly prednisone. Although autoimmune pancreatitis is quite rare, it constitutes an important clinical problem for both patients and their clinicians: the disease commonly presents itself as a tumorous mass which is diagnostically indistinguishable from pancreatic cancer, a disease that
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Type of chronic pancreatitis
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune_pancreatitis
date created:
2006-09-14T19:32:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T04:09:54Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Diffuse_autoimmune_pancreatitis.jpg","width":600,"height":450}
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13
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