The different course of alcoholic and idiopathic chronic pancreatitis: A long-term study of 2,037 patients.
Lu HaoLi-Sheng WangYu LiuTeng WangHong-Lei GuoJun PanDan WangYa-Wei BiJun-Tao JiLei XinTing-Ting DuJin-Huan LinDi ZhangXiang-Peng ZengWen-Bin ZouHui ChenTing XieBai-Rong LiZhuan LiaoZhi-Jie CongZheng-Lei XuZhao-Shen LiLiang-Hao HuPublished in: PloS one (2018)
The long-term profile of ACP and ICP differs in some important aspects. ACP patients usually have a more severe course of CP. These differences should be recognized in the diagnosis and treatment of CP.