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Acute Pancreatitis

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The Role of Laparoscopy in Emergency Abdominal Surgery

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The incidence of acute pancreatitis (AP) has increased over the last two decades to become a growing problem both in the United States and Europe [1, 2]. Between 1994 and 2001, the incidence of first-time attack in California increased from 33 to 44 per 100,000 adults [2] and at present AP accounts for more than 200,000 hospital admissions every year in the USA [3]. Data from the Italian Ministry of Health register show a total of 20,174 admissions for AP in Italy in 2005.

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Staudacher, C., Balzano, G., Pecorelli, N., Mandalà, V. (2012). Acute Pancreatitis. In: Mandalà, V. (eds) The Role of Laparoscopy in Emergency Abdominal Surgery. Updates in Surgery. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2327-7_4

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