Chronic Pancreatitis with Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications | Zendy

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Chronic Pancreatitis with Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications

Author(s) -

Scott Friedberg,

Adam Slivka,

Anil K. Dasyam,

Dhiraj Yadav

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

acg case reports journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.112

H-Index - 4

ISSN - 2326-3253

DOI - 10.14309/crj.2018.94

Subject(s) - medicine , pancreatitis , endocrine system , exocrine pancreatic insufficiency , calcinosis , chronic disease , calcification , parenchyma , disease , pathology , gastroenterology , hormone

Pancreatic calcifications, exocrine insufficiency, and endocrine insufficiency are hallmarks of chronic pancreatitis, and their prevalence increases with the duration of disease. We present a case of chronic pancreatitis in which a dramatic and spontaneous decrease in the burden of both parenchymal and intraductal calcifications was noted during longitudinal follow-up. We discuss the possible reasons for spontaneously vanishing calcifications, an entity rarely described in the literature.

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