Autoimmune Pancreatitis
This book provides up-to-date information on all aspects of autoimmune pancreatitis, a unique form of pancreatitis characterized clinically by frequent presentation with obstructive jaundice and dramatic response to steroids, histologically by a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate with fibrosis, and radiol...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1. Overview of type 1 and type 2
- Part 2. Epidemiology
- Part 3. Pathophysiology
- Part 4. Pathology
- Part 5. Clinical features
- Part 6. Pancreatic endocrine and exocrine functions
- Part 7. Serology
- Part 8. Diagnostic criteria
- Part 9. Imaging
- Abdominal ultrasonography
- CT and MRI with MRCP
- Endoscopy; ERCP and EUS
- PET-CTNobumasa Mizuno
- Part 10. Tissue acquisition for histologic diagnosis
- Part 11. Other organ involvements
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Sialadenitis and dacryoadenitis
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Renal lesions
- Pulmonary lesions
- Lymphadenopathy
- GI tract
- Part 12. Treatment
- Steroids
- Immunomodulatory drugs and rituximab
- Relapse
- Part 13. Prognosis
- Development to chronic pancreatitis
- Occurrence of malignant neoplasms
- Part 14. Type 2 AIP
- Part 15. International survey
- Part 16. AIP in the USA
- Part 17. AIP in Europe
- Part 18. Future perspective.
