Autoimmune pancreatitis complicated by carcinoma of the pancreatobiliary system: a case report and review of the literature.

Title:: Autoimmune pancreatitis complicated by carcinoma of the pancreatobiliary system: a case report and review of the literature.
Document type:: Journal Article
Author(s):: Loos, M; Esposito, I; Hedderich, DM; Ludwig, L; Fingerle, A; Friess, H; Klöppel, G; Büchler, P
Abstract:: We present the case of a 67-year-old woman who developed a metastatic adenocarcinoma of the pancreatobiliary system shortly after the histologically confirmed diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP). This case highlights the need for increased alertness not only in differentiating AIP from pancreatic cancer at the time of diagnosis, but also to exclude concomitant malignancies of the pancreatobiliary system in the management of histologically confirmed AIP.
Journal title abbreviation:: Pancreas
Year:: 2011
Journal volume:: 40
Journal issue:: 1
Pages contribution:: 151-4
Language:: eng
Fulltext / DOI:: doi:10.1097/MPA.0b013e3181f74a13
Pubmed ID:: http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21160372
Print-ISSN:: 0885-3177
TUM Institution:: Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik; Institut für Allgemeine Pathologie und Pathologische Anatomie
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