Japanese Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Autoimmune Pancreatitis, 2018

To the Editor: In 2010, the International Consensus Diagnostic Criteria (ICDC) for autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) were proposed to address the pathogenesis, clinical features, and treatment of AIP on a global level.1 The ICDC were the first to enable the diagnosis and comparison of the 2 distinctive subtypes of AIP: type 1 and type 2. Because the diagnosis of AIP in Western countries was based mainly on pathological findings using endoscopic...