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Pancreatic pseudotumors associated with multifocal idiopathic fibrosclerosis

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Two patients with multifocal idiopathic fibrosclerosis and sclerosing cholangitis developed biliary obstruction due to a fibrotic pancreatic pseudotumor. The masslike fibrosis mimicked pancreatic carcinoma on sonography and cholangiopancreatography. In one patient sonography was successfully used to assess the response of the pseudotumor to corticosteroid therapy.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.

    Arthur Clark, Robert K. Zeman M.D., Peter L. Choyke, E. Maureen White, Edward G. Grant & Mark H. Jaffe

  2. Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Morton I. Burrell

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Clark, A., Zeman, R.K., Choyke, P.L. et al. Pancreatic pseudotumors associated with multifocal idiopathic fibrosclerosis. Gastrointest Radiol 13, 30–32 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889019

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