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Abstract
Acute or chronic INFLAMMATION of the PANCREAS due to excessive ALCOHOL DRINKING. Alcoholic pancreatitis usually presents as an acute episode but it is a chronic progressive disease in alcoholics.
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- Pancreatitis, Alcoholic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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usually chronic so do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE
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- Alcoholism (1966-1996)
- Pancreatitis (1966-1996)
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- National Library of Medicine. Alcoholic Pancreatitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019512. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019512
- Alcoholic Pancreatitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18556573