Steroid Responsive Pancreatic Mass-Forming Type 2 Autoimmune Pancreatitis
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Type 2 autoimmune pancreatitis
Histopathology of type 2 AIP The pancreas of patients with type 2 AIP is often only focally involved. The region that seems to be most often affected is the pancreatic head including the pancreatic portion of the distal bile duct. As in type 1 AIP, the outstanding histologic feature is a periductal lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate usually affecting some or all of the medium sized ducts (Figure 1). ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1598-9992
DOI: 10.4166/kjg.2011.58.1.53