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CASE OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4‐RELATED CHOLANGITIS ACCOMPANYING AUTOIMMUNE PANCREATITIS: DIAGNOSIS BY PERORAL CHOLANGIOSCOPY AND TREATMENT BY ENDOSCOPIC BILIARY STENTING
Author(s) -
OKANO NAOKI,
IGARASHI YOSHINORI,
KISHIMOTO YUI,
ITO KEN,
SASAI DAISUKE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2012.01276.x
Subject(s) - medicine , autoimmune pancreatitis , gastroenterology , pancreatitis , bile duct , endoscopy , antibody , immunology
Recently, the progress of endoscopy has made it possible to evaluate bile duct mucosa by peroral cholangioscopy. Herein, we report a case of immunoglobulin G4‐related sclerosing cholangitis accompanying autoimmune pancreatitis in a patient who improved with treatment by steroid therapy and endoscopic biliary stenting, and observed the bile duct mucosa by peroral cholangioscopy before and after treatment.

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