aetiology of adult acute pancreatitis
Last reviewed 01/2018
The causes of acute pancreatitis in adults include:
- obstruction
- toxins
- drugs
- trauma
- metabolic
- infection
- vascular
- extension of inflammation from adjacent peptic ulcer
- hereditary
- idiopathic
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