Article
Severe chronic pancreatitis and severe liver cirrhosis have different frequencies and are independent risk factors in male Japanese alcoholics.
Journal of gastroenterology - 1 Sept 2004
Nakamura Yuji, Kobayashi Yasunori, Ishikawa Akiko, Maruyama Katsuya, Higuchi Susumu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Chronic pancreatitis and liver cirrhosis are major alcohol-related diseases in most countries. Neither their specific etiologies nor the relationship between them is fully understood. This study was designed to examine a possible association between alcoholic chronic pancreatitis (ACP...
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