Tropical pancreatitis

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. 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.

Also known as: TCP, tropical calcific chronic pancreatitis, fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes, susceptibility to, tropical calcific pancreatitis

0 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types.