Chronic Gastritis in the Setting of Autoimmune Pancreatitis

: Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is a recently recognized disease entity. In some patients, this disease is associated with other inflammatory diseases. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the pathologic characteristics of AIP-associated gastritis (AIP-G). We evaluated and compared the pathologic findings and immunohistochemical expressions of immunoglobulin G (IgG)4 and IgG in gastric biopsy specimens from 13 AIP-G patients with those from...