Chronic Pancreatitis with Spontaneously Disappearing Calcifications. 2018

Scott Friedberg, and Adam Slivka, and Anil Dasyam, and Dhiraj Yadav
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

Pancreatic calcifications, exocrine insufficiency, and endocrine insufficiency are hallmarks of chronic pancreatitis, and their prevalence increases with the duration of disease. We present a case of chronic pancreatitis in which a dramatic and spontaneous decrease in the burden of both parenchymal and intraductal calcifications was noted during longitudinal follow-up. We discuss the possible reasons for spontaneously vanishing calcifications, an entity rarely described in the literature.

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