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About: Autoimmune pancreatitis     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

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Type: ThingDiseaseyago:WikicatPancreasDisordersyago:Abstraction100002137yago:Attribute100024264yago:Condition113920835yago:Disorder114052403yago:PhysicalCondition114034177diseaseyago:State100024720 New Facet based on Instances of this Class

Autoimmune Pancreatitis (AIP) is an increasingly recognized type of chronic pancreatitis that can be difficult to distinguish from pancreatic carcinoma but which responds to treatment with corticosteroids, particularly prednisone. Although autoimmune pancreatitis is quite rare, it constitutes an important clinical problem for both patients and their clinicians: the disease commonly presents itself as a tumorous mass which is diagnostically indistinguishable from pancreatic cancer, a disease that is much more common in addition to being very dangerous. Hence, some patients undergo pancreatic surgery, which is associated to substantial mortality and morbidity, out of the fear by patients and clinicians to undertreat a malignancy. However, surgery is not a good treatment for this condition as