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“Discussion of epidemiology of acute pancreatitis is limited by the difficulties of case ascertainment.” This observation, with which M. J. S. Langmann [1] introduces the chapter on the epidemiology of pancreatitis in his book of 1979 is still extremely topical. In fact, though in the last few years knowledge has increased and there has been undoubted progress in the field of diagnostics, there remain remarkable difficulties in making a correct diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. The most common traps are: (a) to diagnose as acute pancreatitis what is really a relapse of chronic pancreatitis, and (b) to label an attack of acute pancreatitis as a relapse of chronic pancreatitis.
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Cavallini, G. et al. (1987). Epidemiology of Acute Pancreatitis. In: Beger, H.G., Büchler, M. (eds) Acute Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83027-3_4
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