Pancreatic and Extrapancreatic Features in Autoimmune Pancreatitis.

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) accounts for approximately 5% of chronic pancreatitis cases and is an important consideration in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic pathologies. The underlying pathophysiology of AIP is thought to involve lymphocyte infiltration and associated sclerosis. Although AIP is a benign condition that is treatable with corticosteroids, it can have imaging and clinical findings indistinguishable from pancreatic cancer.

Primary retroperitoneal masses: what is the differential diagnosis?

Primary retroperitoneal masses include a diverse, and often rare, group of neoplastic and non-neoplastic entities that arise within the retroperitoneum but do not originate from any retroperitoneal organ. Their overlapping appearances on cross-sectional imaging may pose a diagnostic challenge to the radiologist; familiarity with characteristic imaging features, together with relevant clinical information, helps to narrow the differential diagnosis. In this article, a systematic approach to identifying and classifying primary retroperitoneal masses is described.

Confirmed swine-origin influenza A(H1N1) viral pneumonia: computed tomographic findings in the immunocompetent and the immunocompromised.

Aim: This study aimed to retrospectively evaluate the computed tomographic (CT) appearance of cases of swine-origin influenza A(H1N1) viral infection (S-OIV) in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients confirmed with reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and to determine whether the timing of CT relative to the onset of symptoms affected the overall imaging appearance [corrected].

Methods: A total of 23 patients (15 men and 8 women) from 2 tertiary care centers formed the final study population. Patients were divided into 2 groups based on their immune status: group 1 (n = 14) were patients who were immunocompromised, whereas group 2 (n = 9) were patients who were immunocompetent.

Multiple focal nodular hyperplasia lesions of the liver associated with congenital absence of the portal vein.

Congenital absence of the portal vein (CAPV) is a rare anomaly in which the intestinal and splenic venous drainage bypass the liver and drain directly into the systemic veins through various porto-systemic shunts. In this article, we illustrate a case of multiple focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) with congenital absence of the portal vein in a male, which, to our knowledge, is the third reported case in the literature since its first description in 1793. Furthermore, we discuss the embryology of the portal vein and the Morgan and Superina classification of portosystemic anomalies, the association between portal vein agenesis and multiple FNHs, and, lastly, the use of a hepatocellular-specific MRI contrast agent as an important diagnostic tool in the confirmation of FNH.