The role of proelastase-elastase enzyme system in the pathogenesis of experimental pancreatitis.
Acute pancreatitis is a disease of variable intensity, from mild oedema to a generalized fulminant necrosis; usually it is defined as an acute inflammatory response of pancreatic tissue to various types of injury. The first accurate and comprehensive description of acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis wa...
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McGill University
1966
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| Summary: | Acute pancreatitis is a disease of variable intensity, from mild oedema to a generalized fulminant necrosis; usually it is defined as an acute inflammatory response of pancreatic tissue to various types of injury. The first accurate and comprehensive description of acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis was given in 1889 by Fitz (1), a Boston pathologist, and since that time this form of the disease has been widely discussed in the medical literature. [...] |
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