[Advances of diagnosis and clinical assessments for pancreatic disorders. Remarks]

In spite of the marked advances of laboratory medicine, diagnostic parameters or tools for the pancreatic disorders were now in obscure. However, advances of immunochemical procedures, especially advances of monoclonal antibodies and high performances of immunoassay techniques make it possible to reveal the chemico-pathological status of pancreatic disorders. Moreover, advances of ultrasonic echography and ultrasonically guided biopsy more than make up for the defects of biochemical and immunochemical information. In this symposium, these advances of diagnosis for pancreatic disorders will be studied and discussed.