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Endoscopy: ERCP and EUS

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The diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) still may be challenging. Major pancreatic resections continue to be performed for this benign disease, although surgeries for AIP have been dwindling as clinical experience increases. Until now, imaging of the pancreas and biliary tree with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) plays an important role in the diagnosis of AIP.

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Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful to Dr. Yoshiki Hirooka (Nagoya University, Japan) for providing beautiful figures of EUS elastography and to Dr. Masayuki Kitano (Kinki University, Japan) for providing beautiful figures of contrast-enhanced EUS.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asanbyeongwon-Gil 86, Songpa-Gu, Seoul, 138-736, South Korea

    Tae Jun Song MD, PhD & Myung-Hwan Kim MD, PhD

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Song, T.J., Kim, MH. (2015). Endoscopy: ERCP and EUS. In: Kamisawa, T., Chung, J. (eds) Autoimmune Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55086-7_12

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