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ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2016

Chronic pancreatitis: A diagnostic dilemma.

Sinead N Duggan, Hazel M Ní Chonchubhair, Oladapo Lawal, Donal B O'Connor, Kevin C Conlon

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Review in World journal of gastroenterology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Clinical Practice Update on the Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Management of Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency: Expert Review.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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  16. Secretin-Enhanced MRCP: How and Why-AJR. American journal of roentgenology · 2021
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  17. How to manage postcholecystectomy abdominal pain.Frontline gastroenterology · 2021
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  18. Pre-operative Sarcopenia Predicts Low Islet Cell Yield Following Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2020
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  20. Advanced imaging techniques for chronic pancreatitis.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Sinead N DugganSinead N Duggan, Hazel M Ní Chonchubhair, Oladapo Lawal, Donal B O'Connor, Kevin C Conlon, Professorial Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, 24 Dublin, Ireland.
Hazel M Ní ChonchubhairSinead N Duggan, Hazel M Ní Chonchubhair, Oladapo Lawal, Donal B O'Connor, Kevin C Conlon, Professorial Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, 24 Dublin, Ireland.
Oladapo LawalSinead N Duggan, Hazel M Ní Chonchubhair, Oladapo Lawal, Donal B O'Connor, Kevin C Conlon, Professorial Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, 24 Dublin, Ireland.
Donal B O'ConnorSinead N Duggan, Hazel M Ní Chonchubhair, Oladapo Lawal, Donal B O'Connor, Kevin C Conlon, Professorial Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, 24 Dublin, Ireland.
Kevin C ConlonSinead N Duggan, Hazel M Ní Chonchubhair, Oladapo Lawal, Donal B O'Connor, Kevin C Conlon, Professorial Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Pancreatico-Biliary Diseases, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Tallaght Hospital, 24 Dublin, Ireland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Typical clinical symptoms of chronic pancreatitis are vague and non-specific and therefore diagnostic tests are required, none of which provide absolute diagnostic certainly, especially in the early stages of disease. Recently-published guidelines bring much needed structure to the diagnostic work-up of patients with suspected chronic pancreatitis. In addition, novel diagnostic modalities bring promise for the future. The assessment and diagnosis of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency remains challenging and this review contests the accepted perspective that steatorrhea only occurs with > 90% destruction of the gland.

Indexed as

Diagnostic ImagingPancreatic Function TestsDiagnosis, DifferentialDiagnostic ErrorsHumansPancreatitis, ChronicPredictive Value of TestsDiagnosisExocrine pancreatic insufficiencyMalabsorptionPancreatic enzyme replacement therapyPancreatitis, chronic

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PMID26900292
PMCPMC4735004

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