Chronic calcifying pancreatitis in hospitals in the Ivory Coast
Attia, Y.; Camara, B.M.; Manlan, K.; N'Dri, N.; N'Dri, Y.Y.; Toto, A.; Lohoues, M.J.
Medecine Tropicale Revue du Corps de Sante Colonial 49(4): 365-369
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-682X PMID: 2560106 Document Number: 345094
The authors report on 34 cases of chronic calcifying pancreatitis in Ivory Coast. Chronic calcifying pancreatitis is rare (0.24 P.C. of admitted patients) and appears mainly in man 40 years old, revealed by diabetes (73.5 P.C.). Principal aetiology was alcoholism, 50 P.C. Genuine tropical chronic calcifying pancreatitis exists in small number. It seems its physiopathological mechanism is not only nutritional.