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Abstract
High alcohol consumption in Europe makes it necessary to consider chronic pancreatitis when a patient with history of alcohol abuse presents with abdominal pain. Diagnosis should be made on the basis of imaging procedures and function tests. A scoring system for this, together with a short evaluation of the present diagnostic procedures, are presented.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12779064 DOI: 10.1016/s1590-8658(03)00019-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dig Liver Dis ISSN: 1590-8658 Impact factor: 4.088