Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis.

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Idiopathic pancreatitis is diagnosed in up to 25% of patients with chronic pancreatitis by exclusion of other potential causes including rare ones. It has been shown that idiopathic pancreatitis comprises two clinically distinct entities characterised as early-onset and late-onset disease and that the natural courses of both forms differ from that of alcoholic chronic pancreatitis. Due to considerable progress in...

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