The problem of diagnosing chronic pancreatitis

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 131-134

  Lankisch, Paul George ^a  

^a Municipal Hospital of Lueneburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alcohol abuse; Chronic pancreatitis; Diagnosis; Exocrine pancreatic function tests; Imaging procedures

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; CERULETIDE; CHOLECYSTOKININ; CHYMOTRYPSIN; ELASTASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREAS EXOCRINE INSUFFICIENCY; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS FUNCTION TEST; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEATORRHEA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; PANCREATITIS; REVIEW;

AMYLASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIPASE; PANCREATIC FUNCTION TESTS; PANCREATITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0141768254     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1590-8658(03)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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