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The problem of diagnosing chronic pancreatitis
1Department of Internal Medicine, Municipal Clinic of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany. paulgeorg.lankisch@klinikum-lueneburg.de
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.