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ReviewClinical imaging2020

Follicular pancreatitis: A rare pancreatic inflammatory pseudotumor.

W James Tom, Xiangdong Xu, Noushin Vahdat, Fiona Cassidy, Lejla Aganovic

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Review in Clinical imaging, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

W James TomDepartment of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. Electronic address: wjtom@ucsd.edu.
Xiangdong XuDepartment of Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA; Department of Pathology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
Noushin VahdatDepartment of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA; Department of Radiology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
Fiona CassidyDepartment of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA; Department of Radiology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
Lejla AganovicDepartment of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA; Department of Radiology, VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA.
University of California San Diego · US

Funding

Traning Clinical Scientists in Radiological ImagingT32EB005970 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Eric Y Chang, Rebecca Ann Rakow-Penner · 2007 to 2026
$3.2M
NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB005970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory pseudotumors imitate neoplasms on imaging but actually represent focal inflammation. We report a case of follicular pancreatitis, which is a recently recognized distinct form of mass-forming focal chronic pancreatitis pathologically characterized by lymphoid infiltration with abundant reactive germinal centers. In our patient, follicular pancreatitis manifested as a pancreatic tail mass that was resected due to imaging findings, which were suggestive of pancreatic malignancy. We performed a literature review of this rare condition and present a summary of reported imaging findings. The most distinguishing feature from pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the enhancement pattern, as follicular pancreatitis enhances more than the surrounding pancreatic parenchyma on delayed post-contrast images which is unusual for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. If this benign diagnosis is suggested on imaging, unnecessary surgery and its potential complications may be avoided.

Indexed as

AdenocarcinomaAgedDiagnosis, DifferentialFemaleGranuloma, Plasma CellHumansMaleMiddle AgedPancreasPancreatic NeoplasmsPancreatitis, ChronicChronic pancreatitisFollicular pancreatitisMass-forming pancreatitis

Identifiers

PMID31756593
PMCPMC6938461
OpenAlexW2982139226

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