International Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Autoimmune Pancreatitis and Its Japanese Amendment Have Improved Diagnostic Ability over Existing Criteria by Masahiro Maruyama, Takayuki Watanabe, Keita Kanai, Takaya Oguchi, Takashi Muraki, Hideaki Hamano, Norikazu Arakura, Shigeyuki Kawa

“…The diagnostic ability of JPS 2011 was nearly equivalent to that of the ICDC. Conclusions. The ICDC and JPS 2011 have improved diagnostic ability as compared with earlier criteria sets because of an increase in sensitivity.…”
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Ruptured Suprasellar Dermoid Cyst presenting with Chemical Meningitis and Blindness by Lakshya Varshney, Laxminarayan Tripathy, Harsh Jain, Sunandan Basu, Mohammad Sarwar

“…Background: Intracranial dermoid cysts (ICDC) are rare benign lesions. They typically originate from the ectoderm and contain dermal elements like hair follicles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, and sometimes teeth. …”
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Main Diagnostic Criteria Usually Does Not Work for Autoimmune Pancreatitis Wrongly Presuming Malignancy by Lei Gong, Bin Shu, Fei Yu, Xinjing Zhang, Jianfei Chen, Jirun Peng

“…The main diagnostic criteria (HISORt, Asian, and ICDC) for AIP were applied to assess whether and how unnecessary surgery could have been avoided. …”
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