Biliary colic is abdominal pain that develops due to a blockage in the bile ducts, which carry bile (digestive fluid) from ...

The etiologies of the 56 children with acute pancreatitis are listed in Table 1. The most frequent cause of acute pancreatitis was drugs (30%), followed by biliary disease (29%), idiopathic (12% ...

Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;3(7):356-357. The cause of acute pancreatitis is easily identifiable in 70–90% of patients. In patients with idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP ...

Based on the severe inflammatory infiltration of the pancreas, we made a diagnosis of acute necrotizing pancreatitis (Fig. 4). We diagnosed the inflammatory infiltration of the gallbladder wall as ...

The Saint Louis University Center for Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases has been officially designated by the National Pancreas Foundation as a pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer center of excellence.