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.

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