Acute pancreatitis after severe opthalmic adenoviral infection
| Journal | Volume 74 - 2011 |
| Issue | Fasc.2 - Letters |
| Author(s) | Seher Kir, Yusuf Aydin, Orhan Kocaman, Gokhan Celbek, Ozlem Kudas, Hulya Coskun, Fahri Halit Besir, Ali Cagri Kilic |
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| (1) Internal Medicine Department, Duzce, Turkey, (2) Radiology Department, (3) Opthalmology Department, Duzce University Faculty of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey. |
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Viral etiology of acute pancreatitis (AP) is well established but there have been only isolated case reports of AP following viral infections, most commonly coxsackie and mumps virus infections (1). The role of viral infections in the etiopathogenesis of pancreatitis has been examined in both animal and human studies (2), also Tanimura et al. defined necrotizing pancreatitis associated with adenovirus infection in chickens (3). |
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