Relapsing acute and chronic pancreatitis.

Acute Pancreatitis in Children

The original clinical classification of pancreatic inflammation, established at the Marseilles symposium in 1963, comprised acute pancreatitis, relapsing acute, chronic relapsing and chronic pancreatits (1) . Acute pancreatitis was characterized by clinical and pathologic reversibility, whereas chronic pancreatitis was characterized by permanent morphologic changes in the pancreas. Neither etio...

Pleural effusion in relapsing pancreatitis.

A small coincident pleural effusion occurs commonly in acute pancreatitis (Coffey, 1952; Stein et al. 1959; Roseman, Kowlessar & Sleisenger 1960; Fishbein, Murphy & Wilder 1962; Kaye, 1968; Miridjanian et al., 1969.) Massive pleural effusions are rare and frequently cause diagnostic confusion in acute and chronic pancreatitis (Roseman et al., 1960, Kaye, 1968; Miridjanian et al., 1969). A case ...

Aetiologies of recurrent acute pancreatitis: acute or chronic relapsing disease?

Pancreatitis--a retrospective study.

A retrospective study has been made of all adult patients admitted to Manchester Royal Infirmary with exocrine pancreatic disease between 1968 and 1974, in order to define the factors which influence the variable mortality and morbidity rates in published accounts of patients with acute pancreatitis. The most plausible explanation is that some series with low mortality rates include a variable ...

Pancreatic disease: surgical aspects.

Chronic pancreatitis Chronic pancreatitis, that is chronic progressive replacement fibrosis of the pancreas, is a rare disease in this country. I have collected fifty-five cases (thirty-six women and nineteen men) who illustrate some aspects of the disease, but I have had to rely on the literature for most of my information. The literature on chronic pancreatitis has been very confused and one ...