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Genetic issues in pediatric pancreatitis.
Current gastroenterology reports - 1 Jun 2006
Kandula Leena, Whitcomb David C, Lowe Mark E
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The number of hospitalizations in children with acute and chronic pancreatitis is increasing and accounts for significant morbidity. Acute pancreatitis is a reversible event involving diffuse inflammation of the pancreas with variable involvement of other regional tissues, remote organs, or both, whereas chronic pancreatitis is a process that produces irreversible changes in the pancreatic structure and function....
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