Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) with multiple pancreatic cysts is rare. The severe narrowing of the branched pancreatic ducts found in active AIP with a chronic pancreatitis background may have caused pancreatic juice outflow obstruction, resulting in multiple cysts. Oral steroid therapy resolved the...

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Autores principales: Kohisa, Junji, Tsuchiya, Atsunori, Ikemi, Masatoshi, Terai, Shuji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Clinical Images
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1737
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author Kohisa, Junji
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description Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) with multiple pancreatic cysts is rare. The severe narrowing of the branched pancreatic ducts found in active AIP with a chronic pancreatitis background may have caused pancreatic juice outflow obstruction, resulting in multiple cysts. Oral steroid therapy resolved the stenosis, resulting in disappearance of the cysts.
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spelling pubmed-61321402018-09-13 Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis Kohisa, Junji Tsuchiya, Atsunori Ikemi, Masatoshi Terai, Shuji Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) with multiple pancreatic cysts is rare. The severe narrowing of the branched pancreatic ducts found in active AIP with a chronic pancreatitis background may have caused pancreatic juice outflow obstruction, resulting in multiple cysts. Oral steroid therapy resolved the stenosis, resulting in disappearance of the cysts. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6132140/ /pubmed/30214790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1737 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kohisa, Junji
Tsuchiya, Atsunori
Ikemi, Masatoshi
Terai, Shuji
Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
title Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
title_full Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
title_fullStr Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
title_full_unstemmed Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
title_short Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
title_sort disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1737
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