This paper reviews the current literature on chronic pancreatitis (CP). Despite marked
progress in diagnostic tools, predominately imaging methods, no consensus has been …

Objectives: Knowledge of the natural course of acute pancreatitis (AP) and risk of
progression to chronic pancreatitis (CP) is limited. The aims were to describe:(1) the …

Chronic pancreatitis is characterized by progressive, irreversible morphologic and functional
changes that are most commonly attributed to environmental insults, particularly when there …

Importance The incidence of chronic pancreatitis is 5 to 12 per 100 000 adults in
industrialized countries, and the incidence is increasing. Treatment is multimodal, and …

In Japan, we are now using the clinical diagnostic criteria for chronic pancreatitis (CP) that
were revised in 2001 to add the findings of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography …

The utilization of recent advances in molecular and genomic technologies and progress in
pancreatic imaging techniques provided remarkable insight into genetic, environmental …

Background The clinical course of chronic pancreatitis is still unpredictable, which relates to
the lack of the availability of a clinical classification. Therefore, patient populations cannot be …

Objective: Chronic pancreatitis patients appear to present an increased incidence of
pancreatic cancer. The aim of the study was to compare the incidence of cancer, whether …

The natural course of the classical symptoms of chronic pancreatitis, ie pain, exocrine and
endocrine pancreatic insufficiency, was followed up in 335 patients over a median of 9.8 …

Chronic pancreatitis is a putative risk factor for pancreatic cancer. The aim of this study was
to examine the magnitude and temporality of this association. We searched MEDLINE and …