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Tropical pancreatitis
Disease definition
Tropical pancreatitis is a rare pancreatic disease of juvenile onset occurring mainly in tropical developing countries and characterized by chronic non-alcoholic pancreatitis manifesting with abdominal pain, steatorrhea and fibrocalculous pancreatopathy (see this term). It is also commonly associated with the development of pancreatic calculi and pancreatic cancer at a much higher frequency than seen in ordinary chronic pancreatitis.
ORPHA:103918
- Synonym(s):
- TCP
- Tropical calcific chronic pancreatitis
- Prevalence: Unknown
- Inheritance: -
- Age of onset: Childhood
- ICD-10: K86.1
- OMIM: 608189
- UMLS: C1842402
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
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