Fifteen-Year-Old Male with Type 2 Autoimmune Pancreatitis: An Argument for Endoscopy
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Fifteen-Year-Old Male with Type 2 Autoimmune Pancreatitis: An Argument for Endoscopy
Type 2 autoimmune pancreatitis, an increasingly recognized etiology of pancreatitis in patients less than 20 years old, has characteristically been diagnosed with the histological finding of duct-centric pancreatitis in a patient who lacks elevated serum immunoglobulin G4. We present the case of a nonobese 15-year-old male, without any chronic medical conditions, who presented with the chief co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Gastroenterology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1662-0631
DOI: 10.1159/000453659