Abstract
Only few cases of acute pancreatitis are diagnosed by histology; therefore, the majority of patients are included in studies according to clinical, biological, and morphological criteria. Since there are no universal standard diagnostic criteria for acute pancreatitis, identical inclusion criteria are not used by different authors. This is a serious problem for epidemiological analysis and especially for the comparison of different studies.
Dr. Dominguez-Muñoz is actually the recipient of a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Fundation in Ulm (Germany)
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Carballo, F., Dominguez-Muñoz, J.E., Martinez-Pancorbo, C., de la Morena, J. (1993). Epidemiology 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_3
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