Controversies in the etiologies of acute pancreatitis

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 545-552

  Khan, Ali Safdar ^a   Latif, Sahibzada Usman ^b   Eloubeidi, Mohamad A ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute necrotizing etiology; Alcoholic; Biliary tract; Celiac disease; Cholelithiasis; Cystic fibrosis; Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator; Hypercalcemia; Hyperparathyroidism; Hypertriglyceridemia; Pancreatitis; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; CELIAC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PANCREAS DIVISUM; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; CELIAC DISEASE; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 78449306335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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