Abstract:For the cases of acute pancreatitis, it is crucial to determine the etiology to regulate the treatment and determine the need for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Until now, there has been not a single laboratory test to distinguish between stasis-induced mechanical (biliary) pancreatitis and nonmechanical (nonbiliary) pancreatitis. There are so many developed scoring systems, which are not easy to use in the routine clinical practice because they are complicated and include many
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