C Y Yeung, H C Lee, F Y Huang, M Y Ho, H A Kao, D C Liang, C H Hsu, H Y Hung, P Y Chang, J C Sheu
UNLABELLED: Pancreatitis in children is not common and can be associated with severe morbidity and mortality. We encountered 43 children, ranging in age from 2 to 18 years, with pancreatitis over the past 10 years. The diagnosis of pancreatitis was made in those patients who showed: (1) significant intra-operative pathology or; (2) clinical findings of pancreatic inflammation and laboratory confirmation. More than one third (16 cases) of the cases were due to trauma, other causes included systemic disease (10), structural disease (8), and toxins or drugs (4)...
June 1996: European Journal of Pediatrics