Pathology
Before the entity of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) was proposed clinically [1], several disease entities that are now regarded as equivalent to AIP were reported from the pathological standpoint: chronic inflammatory sclerosis [2], lymphoplasmacytic scler
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Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Terumi Kamisawa • Jae Bock Chung Editors
Autoimmune Pancreatitis
Editors Terumi Kamisawa, MD, PhD Department of Internal Medicine Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital Tokyo Japan
Jae Bock Chung, MD, PhD Department of Internal Medicine Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine Seoul Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
ISBN 978-3-642-55085-0 ISBN 978-3-642-55086-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-55086-7 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
Sarles et al. reported a case of chronic pancreatitis with hypergammaglobulinemia in 1961, and the concept of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) was first proposed by Yoshida et al. in 1995. Cases of AIP were initially reported most often from Asia, particularly Japan and Korea; however, AIP has now been described worldwide, with some distinct differences in characteristics between Asian and Western countries. Diagnostic criteria for AIP have been proposed from Japan, Korea, the USA, Germany and Italy. After considering both the full reported spectrum of clinical presentations and the histopathology of AIP, Int
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