Early Minimal Change Chronic Pancreatitis” Or “Imaging Negative Chronic Pancreatitis

Abstract

We report five cases of early or minimal change pancreatitis in our outpatient department. "Minimal Change Pancreatitis" is an entity that is very unfamiliar in majority of the practicing physician & surgeons. It is often called as "early chronic pancreatitis". All these terms are often used synonymously. It is a syndrome consisting of early phase of inflammation of pancreas which is manifested by less easily identifiable clinical features like chronic or recurrent abdominal pain syndrome with normal abdominal imaging studies e.g. USG