Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of autoimmune pancreatitis.
OBJECTIVE
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a rare chronic relapsing steroid-responsive fibroinflammatory disorder of the pancreas that is likely caused by immune dysregulation. It is now thought that AIP consists of two distinct clinicopathologic syndromes currently designated as types 1 and 2.


CONCLUSIONS
A current update on etiopathogenesis, pathology, and clinical and imaging findings of AIP is provided with an emphasis on diagnosis and management.
1 Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Ashish
A
Khandelwal
Alampady Krishna
AK
Shanbhogue
Naoki
N
Takahashi
Kumaresan
K
Sandrasegaran
Srinivasa R
SR
Prasad
D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*