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| | | Number of cases and references |
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| Cancer | Pancreatic adenocarcinoma | 13 cases [18], 5 cases [19], 1 case [20], 8 cases [16, 17], 2 cases [1], 11 cases [21], 1 case [22] |
| Bile duct cancer/cholangiocarcinoma | 3 cases [16, 17], 4 cases [22], 17 + 20 cases [23] |
| Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm | 1 case [16, 17] |
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| Autoimmune diseases | Systemic lupus erythematosus | 1 case [11], 2 cases [16, 17], 4 cases [our study], 1 case [24] |
| Antiphospholipid syndrome | 1 case [11], 2 cases [our study] |
| Autoimmune hepatitis | 1 case [16, 17] |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | 5 cases [11], 2 cases [25] |
| Systemic sclerosis | 3 cases [11], 1 case [our study] |
| Sjögren’s syndrome | 3 cases [11], 2 patients [our study] |
| Polymyositis/dermatomyositis | 1 case [11] |
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| ANCA-related vasculitis | Churg-Strauss syndrome
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| 4 cases [11], 4 cases [14] |
| Microscopic polyangiitis | 1 case [11], 1 case [our study] |
| Nonspecified | 1 case [16, 17] |
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| Infections | Parasitic infections | 2 cases [our study], specific IgG4 antibody elevation [3, 26–29] |
| Bacterial infections | 10 cases [our study] |
| Viral infections | 3 cases [our study] |
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| Others | Multicentric Castleman’s disease
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| 7 cases [11], 1 case [30], 1 case [16], 1 case [31], 5 cases [12] |
| Eosinophilic disorders (fasciitis, pneumonia, and hypereosinophilic syndrome) | 1 case each (fasciitis and pneumonia) [11],
2 cases of hypereosinophilic syndrome [16, 17] |
| Chronic hepatitis | 1 case [11], 2 cases (auto-immune) [32] |
| Liver cirrhosis | 2 cases [11], frequent cause of serum IgG4 elevation [33] |
| Bronchial asthma | 1 case [11], 3 cases [34] |
| Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/interstitial pneumonia | 1 case [11], 4 cases [16, 17], 3 cases [our study] |
| Primary sclerosing cholangitis | 1 case [16, 17], 3 cases [35], 12 cases [36], 33 cases [37] |
| Chronic and idiopathic/acute pancreatitis | 1 and 2 cases, respectively [16, 17], 4 and 5 cases, respectively [18] |
| Behcet’s disease | 1 case [16, 17] |
| Cystic fibrosis | 7 cases [38], 2 cases [our study] |
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