Total pancreatectomy and autoislet transplant for chronic recurrent pancreatitis in a 5-year-old boy

• Hauptverfasser: Shaheed Merani (Verfasst von), Rene Razzak (Verfasst von), Tatsuya Kin (Verfasst von), Andrea Haqq (Verfasst von), Hien Huynh (Verfasst von), A.M. James Shapiro (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: Elsevier, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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Childhood chronic pancreatitis is a rare disorder, which can lead to a chronically debilitating condition. The etiology of recurrent hereditary pancreatitis, which previously was classified as idiopathic, has now been attributed in certain cases to specific genetic mutations including abnormalities...