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Etiology and Pathogenesis of Acute Pancreatitis

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Standards in Pancreatic Surgery

Abstract

Knowledge of the cellular events which lead to acute pancreatitis is severely limited and, as a result, concepts regarding the etiology of the disease are limited to epidemiologic data which identify disease states or conditions associated with acute pancreatitis [42].

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Steer, M.L., Saluja, A.K. (1993). Etiology and Pathogenesis of Acute Pancreatitis. In: Beger, H.G., Büchler, M., Malfertheiner, P. (eds) Standards in Pancreatic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77437-9_2

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