Acute Pancreatitis May Reveal Pancreatic Cancer at Earlier Stage
Shaojun Li, M Med, and Bole Tian, PhD, from the West China Hospital in Sichuan, China, identified 47 consecutive patients with pancreatic cancer who presented with acute pancreatitis between January 2009 and November 2016.
Of the patients, 35 (74.5%) were men with a mean age of 52 years. Clinical features, clinicopathologic variables, postoperative complications, and follow-up evaluations of patients were recorded from the database.
Clinical features of acute pancreatitis include abdominal pain, jaundice, and weight loss. Read more . . .