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Today chronic pancreatitis, and its various progressive forms, is more commonly observed than in the past. This is due to an increase of this disease and is not a result of improved diagnosis. Improvement of diagnosis is only related to better morphological differentiation by sonography, computed tomography, and endoscopic retrograde pancreatography but not by refinement of laboratory methods.
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Gschnitzer, F. (1981). General Remarks to Chapters 19–21. In: Scuro, L.A., Dagradi, A., Marzoli, G.P., Pederzoli, P., Cavallini, G., Banterle, C. (eds) Topics in Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67879-0_18
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