A Case of Chronic Pancreatitis Due to Hyper Parathyroidism

Chronic calcifying/calcific pancreatitis (CCP) is a special form of chronic pancreatitis that tends to calcify or is associated with pancreatic lithiasis. Pancreatic lithiasis refers either to true stones in the duct system of the pancreas called pancreatic calculi or to false stones due to calcification of the parenchyma. Alcoholic calcific pancreatitis (ACP) is the commonest type of chronic pancreatitis seen in the western world, while in the tropics there is a distinct nonalcoholic type of chronic pancreatitis of uncertain etiology, tropical calcific pancreatitis (TCP), which is far more common.