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Acute Pancreatitis

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Acute pancreatitis is a common disease and patients usually present with severe upper abdominal pain. The mild form of the disease is self-limiting, but severe and critical disease is characterized by infected pancreatic necrosis, multiple organ failure and a high mortality [1].

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Windsor, J.A. (2018). Acute Pancreatitis. In: Barreto, S., Windsor, J. (eds) Surgical Diseases of the Pancreas and Biliary Tree. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8755-4_9

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