Chronic pancreatitis in England: a changing picture?
A total of 107 patients with chronic pancreatitis from the London area seen between 1968 and 1973 have been reviewed; they comprised 30 with calcific pancreatitis and 77 with chronic or chronic relapsing pancreatitis without calcification. The commonest clinical features were pain, diabetes, malabsorption, and peptic ulcer. Alcohol was a probable aetiology in nearly half the cases, a different finding from those of previous surveys and possibly associated with the increased consumption of alcohol in England in the last 20 years.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications; D002908:Chronic Disease; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010437:Peptic Ulcer / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography