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Query: UMLS:C0030305 (
pancreatitis
)
16,014
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Chronic pancreatitis is a fibroinflammatory disease of the pancreas. Etiologically, most cases are related to alcohol abuse and smoking. Recently, gene mutations have been identified as the cause of hereditary
pancreatitis
.
Other chronic pancreatitis
types that were defined in recent years are autoimmune
pancreatitis
(lymphoplasmacytic sclerosing
pancreatitis
) and paraduodenal
pancreatitis
('groove
pancreatitis
', 'cystic dystrophy of heterotopic pancreas'). This review describes and discusses the main histological findings, the pathogenesis and the clinical features of the various types of chronic pancreatitis. In addition, pseudotumors and other tumor-like lesions are briefly mentioned.
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PMID:Chronic pancreatitis, pseudotumors and other tumor-like lesions. 1748 47
