Pancreas divisum - An underestimated cause of chronic pancreatitis and relapsing episodes of acute pancreatitis?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1857-1859

  Ewald, Nils ^a   Kloer, Hans U ^a   Bretzel, Reinhard G ^a   Hardt, Philip D ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Chronic pancreatitis; ERCP; Pancreas divisum

Indexed keywords

PANCREAS ENZYME;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; NAUSEA; PANCREAS DIVISUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SPHINCTEROTOMY; STENOSIS; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 26244467741     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-005-2951-8     Document Type: Article

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