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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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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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