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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Mar 16, 2015; 7(3): 258-264
Published online Mar 16, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i3.258
Head mass in chronic pancreatitis: Inflammatory or malignant
Amit K Dutta, Ashok Chacko
Amit K Dutta, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore 632 004, India
Ashok Chacko, Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, the Madras Medical Mission, Chennai 600037, India
Author contributions: Dutta AK was involved in the search and review of literature and preparation of manuscript; Chacko A was involved in the concept of this study, search and review of literature, preparation of manuscript and critical appraisal.
Conflict-of-interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Ashok Chacko, Professor, Director, Institute of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, the Madras Medical Mission, 4-A, Dr J Jayalalitha Nagar, Mogappair, Chennai 600037, India. chacko.ashok@gmail.com
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Received: August 27, 2014
Peer-review started: August 28, 2014
First decision: September 30, 2014
Revised: November 15, 2014
Accepted: December 16, 2014
Article in press: December 17, 2014
Published online: March 16, 2015
Core Tip

Core tip: Evaluating head mass in chronic pancreatitis is clinically challenging. Advances in pancreatic imaging including endoscopic ultrasonography and molecular tools have been reviewed.