Publication details
Chronická pankreatitida ve stáří
| Title in English | Chronic pancreatitis in the old age. |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Česká geriatrická revue |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Other specializations of internal medicine |
| Keywords | Chronic pancreatitis-parenchyma-pain-medicamentous therapy-panreatic carcinoma |
| Description | Chronic pancreatitis is a constantly progressing disease. In older patients the progression of the disease has some particularities, some of them are: pain, weight loss, diarrheic stool, diabetes mellitus, icterus, ascites, portal hypertension, bleeding, duodenal obstruction. It is important to consider chronic pancreatitis in older people, above all the disease must be differentialy diagnosticaly distinguished from pancreatic carcinoma that symptomatically proceeds similarly. |