Chronic pancreatitis
Diagnosis almost certain
Disclosures
- updated 16 Jan 2023:
- Integral Diagnostics, Shareholder (ongoing)
- Micro-X Ltd, Shareholder (ongoing)
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2023-03-22T08:22:59.859Z.
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Recurrent abdominal pain fromfor 3 years.
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Chronic pancreatitis represents the end result of a continuous, prolonged, inflammatory, and fibrosing process that affects the pancreas. This results in irreversible morphologic changes and permanent endocrine and exocrine pancreatic dysfunction. Cambridge classification system is based on the status of the main pancreatic duct (PD) and the presence of side branchesbranch abnormalities.
-<p><strong>Chronic pancreatitis</strong> represents the end result of a continuous, prolonged, inflammatory, and fibrosing process that affects the pancreas. This results in irreversible morphologic changes and permanent endocrine and exocrine pancreatic dysfunction. Cambridge classification system is based on the status of the main pancreatic duct (PD) and the presence of side branches abnormalities.</p>- +<p><a href="/articles/chronic-pancreatitis-2" title="Chronic pancreatitis">Chronic pancreatitis</a> represents the end result of a continuous, prolonged, inflammatory, and fibrosing process that affects the pancreas. This results in irreversible morphologic changes and permanent endocrine and exocrine pancreatic dysfunction. Cambridge classification system is based on the status of the main pancreatic duct (PD) and the presence of side branch abnormalities.</p>