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Chronic pancreatitis with diffuse fibrosis in early childhood
Y Elitsur1, S Y Siddiqui, D Sloven
1International Institute of Infant Nutrition and Gastrointestinal Disease, Children's Hospital, Buffalo, NY 14222.
Pancreas
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 2-year old girl is described in which biliary obstruction was the initial presentation of chronic pancreatitis. A pancreatic biopsy done at laparotomy showed extensive fibrosis not explained by her short clinical course. Chronic pancreatitis with fibrosis in childhood is reviewed.