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Parotid saliva test in the diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis
Digestion
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
The parotid saliva test was evaluated in 31 patients with chronic pancreatitis proven by the secretin-pancreozymin test and failed to detect pancreatic insufficiency in the majority of the cases. According to this result the test cannot be recommended as a screening test for chronic pancreatitis.