Publications by authors named "Maya Kakihara"
A 60-year-old male visited a previous hospital with upper abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with localized mild acute pancreatitis. Three months later, abdominal contrast-enhanced computed tomography showed focal parenchymal atrophy of the pancreas with distal pancreatic duct dilation.
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- Imaging tools to predict pancreatic atrophy post-steroid therapy in autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) are lacking, but this study explores the effectiveness of equilibrium-phase contrast-enhanced CT (CE-CT) in making those predictions.
- * The study involved 46 AIP patients and examined CT attenuation values from noncontrast and equilibrium-phase images to assess their correlation with pancreatic atrophy, volume changes, and diabetes exacerbation.
- * Results indicated that equilibrium-phase and SUB images before therapy were significantly linked to pancreatic atrophy and changes in pancreatic volume, suggesting that CE-CT could aid in predicting outcomes after steroid treatment.
A 66-year-old Japanese man was referred to our hospital with multiple giant liver cysts. The cysts had already been detected as multiple 3-cm cysts with small nodules at another hospital 12 years prior to this presentation. The cysts were diagnosed as an intraductal papillary neoplasms of the bile duct (IPNB) occupying the right lobe of the liver.
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