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Disappearance of multiple pancreatic cysts after prednisolone treatment in a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis.

Junji KohisaAtsunori TsuchiyaMasatoshi IkemiShuji Terai
Published in: Clinical case reports (2018)
Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) with multiple pancreatic cysts is rare. The severe narrowing of the branched pancreatic ducts found in active AIP with a chronic pancreatitis background may have caused pancreatic juice outflow obstruction, resulting in multiple cysts. Oral steroid therapy resolved the stenosis, resulting in disappearance of the cysts.
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