Paul Georg Lankisch

TL;DR: A multicenter historical cohort study of 2015 subjects with chronic pancreatitis who were recruited from clinical centers in six countries finds that pancreatitis may be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer, but the magnitude of the relation between these two diseases is unclear.

TL;DR: During 2002 the International Association of Pancreatology developed evidenced-based guidelines on the surgical management of acute pancreatitis, which should form the basis for audit studies in order to determine the quality of patient care delivery.

TL;DR: The natural course of the classical symptoms of chronic pancreatitis, i.e., pain, exocrine and endocrine pancreatic insufficiency, was followed up in 335 patients over a median of 9.8 years as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this study, tobacco smoking was associated with earlier diagnosis of chronic alcoholic pancreatitis and with the appearance of calcifications and diabetes, independent of alcohol consumption.

TL;DR: Both cholelithiasis and alcohol were main etiologic factors in the more northern countries studied, whereas chole lithiasis alone predominated in theMore southern ones.