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Serum and Urinary Pancreatic Enzymes in Differential Diagnosis of Acute Pancreatitis

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Diagnostic Procedures in Pancreatic Disease

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The use of clinical chemical tests is outlined in Table 1. The clinical use of pancreatic enzymes in serum and urine and enzyme-to-creatinine clearance ratios in acute pancreatitis has been mainly assessed for monitoring. However, use of clinical chemical tests as diagnostic tests should only take place when their diagnostic value has been evaluated in a “phase III trial” as defined in Table 2 [1]. Unfortunately, with regard to serum and urinary enzymes as well as enzyme-to-creatinine clearance ratios many “phase II trials” have been reported [2–16], whereas there is a lack of prospective investigations in which the diagnostic value for acute pancreatitis have been studied and compared in a clinically relevant “target” population.

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  1. Department of Clinical Chemistry, Aalborg Hospital, parth SOUTH, Aalborg (DK), Denmark

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  3. Department Surgical Gastroenterology, Aalborg Hospital, parth SOUTH, Aalborg (DK), Denmark

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Møller-Petersen, J., Lausten, J., Klærke, M. (1986). Serum and Urinary Pancreatic Enzymes in Differential Diagnosis of Acute Pancreatitis. In: Malfertheiner, P., Ditschuneit, H. (eds) Diagnostic Procedures in Pancreatic Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71128-2_16

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