Acute pancreatitis associated with a calculosis of the gallbladder in childhood. Review of the literature and personal experience
Morgante, F.; Marino, G.; Mazzi, U.; Morgante, G.
La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica Medical and Surgical Pediatrics 6(6): 855-857
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0391-5387 PMID: 6545602 Document Number: 222779
The authors present a case of a thirteen year old girl with acute hemorrhagic pancreatis and cholelithiasis. They show the rarity of this pathology in children underlaying the difficulty of an early diagnosis emphasizing the lack of specific symptoms with the exception of an increase of amylase in the saliva and in the serum, the only laboratory data. Moreover, they underlay a more favourable prognosis in children than in adults.