Open AccessMultifocal autoimmune pancreatitis: A retrospective study in a single tertiary center of 26 patients with a 20-year literature review
Author(s) -
Xin Huang,
Zhang Shi,
Cheng-Le Ma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v27.i27.4429
Subject(s) - autoimmune pancreatitis , medicine , radiology , magnetic resonance imaging , pancreatic duct , malignancy , pancreatitis , neuroradiology , retrospective cohort study , pathology , gastroenterology , neurology , psychiatry
Multifocal-type autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP), sometimes forming multiple pancreatic masses, is frequently misdiagnosed as pancreatic malignancy in routine clinical practice. It is critical to know the imaging features of multifocal-type AIP to prevent misdiagnosis and unnecessary surgery. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no studies evaluating the value of diffusionweighted imaging (DWI), axial fat-suppressed T1 weighted image (T1WI), and dynamic contrast enhanced-computed tomography (DCE-CT) in detecting the lesions of multifocal-type AIP.