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BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 243-249Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpg.2010.03.004
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Endoscopic ultrasound; Chronic pancreatitis; Diagnosis
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Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive inflammatory disease that is difficult to diagnose due to the paucity of a diagnostic gold standard. For almost two decades, early-stage CP has been recognised in the context of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) when a patient presents with typical pancreatic-type pain, normal conventional imaging examinations, and subtle findings of CP by EUS. Whether these EUS findings represent true early-stage CP that will progress or whether they are false positive findings remain unclear. The key to enhancing the diagnostic precision of EUS in CP is to use objective, widely-accepted criteria that are reproducible. The Rosemont Criteria is a significant step towards achieving this goal and needs to be validated in conjunction with long-term studies of early-stage CP. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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