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Chronic Pancreatitis with Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications

Pancreatic calcifications, exocrine insufficiency, and endocrine insufficiency are hallmarks of chronic pancreatitis, and their prevalence increases with the duration of disease. We present a case of chronic pancreatitis in which a dramatic and spontaneous decrease in the burden of both parenchymal...

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Autores principales: Friedberg, Scott, Slivka, Adam, Dasyam, Anil, Yadav, Dhiraj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American College of Gastroenterology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6358577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30775397
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.2018.94
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Sumario:Pancreatic calcifications, exocrine insufficiency, and endocrine insufficiency are hallmarks of chronic pancreatitis, and their prevalence increases with the duration of disease. We present a case of chronic pancreatitis in which a dramatic and spontaneous decrease in the burden of both parenchymal and intraductal calcifications was noted during longitudinal follow-up. We discuss the possible reasons for spontaneously vanishing calcifications, an entity rarely described in the literature.