Pancreatic head mass and jaundice as revealing signs of autoimmune pancreatitis type 2 in a 15-year-old girl

Donato Rigante; Danilo Pagliari; Enrico Masiello; Simona Filoni; Valentina Giorgio; Antonio Gatto; Lorenzo Nanni; Filomena Valentina Paradiso; Ilaria Lazzareschi; Piero Valentini

doi:10.1016/j.imlet.2018.03.005

Pancreatic head mass and jaundice as revealing signs of autoimmune pancreatitis type 2 in a 15-year-old girl

Immunol Lett. 2018 May:197:29-30. doi: 10.1016/j.imlet.2018.03.005. Epub 2018 Mar 14.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: drigante@gmail.com.
² Institute of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: danilo@nonsololatina.it.
³ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: enrico.masiello87@gmail.com.
⁴ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: simonafiloni@yahoo.it.
⁵ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: valentinagiorgio1@gmail.com.
⁶ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: antonio.gatto@policlinicogemelli.it.
⁷ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: lo2nanni@gmail.com.
⁸ Division of Pediatric Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: vale.paradiso@gmail.com.
⁹ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: ilarialazzareschi@gmail.com.
¹⁰ Institute of Pediatrics, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: piero.valentini@unicatt.it.

PMID: 29550256
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2018.03.005

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Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Autoimmune Diseases / diagnosis*
Autoimmune Diseases / drug therapy
Biopsy, Needle
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Fibrosis
Humans
Inflammation
Jaundice / diagnosis*
Jaundice / drug therapy
Neutrophil Infiltration
Pancreas / pathology*
Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Pancreatic Neoplasms / drug therapy
Pancreatitis / diagnosis*
Pancreatitis / drug therapy
Prednisolone / therapeutic use
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Prednisolone