Abstract
Chronic pancreatitis has been known as a pathoanatomical abnormality for many years. The prevalence in autopsy materials has differed between 0.04% [1] and 5% [2]. The clinical picture was only sporadically mentioned in the medical literature up to 1946, when Comfort et al. [3] presented the first detailed clinical material of chronic pancreatitis, comprising 29 cases. Since that time, studies on etiology, clinical picture, medical and surgical treatment, prognosis, and complications of chronic pancreatitis have resulted in a huge number of publications. However, epidemiological studies, especially studies of the frequency (incidence and prevalence) of the disease, are very few. Only one prospective study concerning incidence and prevalence of chronic pancreatitis exists, collected in the city of Copenhagen in 1978–1979 and presented in 1981 [4]. On the other hand, epidemiological data are available either from retrospective studies [5–7] or by calculation from data given in clinical material [8–10; Ammann, personal communication].
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Worning, H. (1990). Incidence and Prevalence of Chronic Pancreatitis. In: Beger, H.G., Büchler, M., Ditschuneit, H., Malfertheiner, P. (eds) Chronic Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75319-0_2
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