Risk factors in chronic pancreatitis.

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Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease followed by structural alterations--inflammation, fibrosis and acinar atrophy--pain emergence, exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiency, severe alteration of quality of life. The pathogenetic mechanisms characteristic to this disease are not thoroughly known, but the identification of some genetic and autoimmune factors in certain entities has elucidated...

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