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Case Reports in Surgery
Volume 2013, Article ID 809023, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/809023
Case Report

A Case of Pancreatic Cancer in the Setting of Autoimmune Pancreatitis with Nondiagnostic Serum Markers

Manju D. Chandrasegaram,1 Su C. Chiam,1 Nam Q. Nguyen,2 Andrew Ruszkiewicz,3 Adrian Chung,4 Eu L. Neo,1 John W. Chen,1 Christopher S. Worthley,1 and Mark E. Brooke-Smith1

1Hepatobiliary Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
2Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
3Department of Surgical Pathology, SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
4Department of Gastroenterology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia

Received 9 April 2013; Accepted 15 May 2013

Academic Editors: G. Lal, N. D. Merrett, and S. Tatebe

Copyright © 2013 Manju D. Chandrasegaram et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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