Abstract
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a special entity of chronic pancreatitis of presumed autoimmune etiology that is associated with characteristic clinical, histological, and morphological findings [1, 2]. Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in understanding this disease, including identification of two distinct histological subtypes with different clinical phenotypes (termed type 1 and type 2 AIP), incorporation of seemingly unrelated diseases within the spectrum of IgG4-related disease [2–4]. Despite advances, many questions remain unanswered. Among the remaining questions, distinguishing AIP from pancreatic cancer is still challenging. AIP mimics pancreatic cancer in terms of clinical features, such as advanced age, painless jaundice, weight loss, new-onset diabetes mellitus, and the presence of a mass lesion of the pancreas [1, 5].
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Mizuno, N., Yamao, K. (2015). A Role of PET/CT in the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Pancreatitis. In: Kamisawa, T., Chung, J. (eds) Autoimmune Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55086-7_13
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