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Overview
Differentiating Chronic Pancreatitis from Other Diseases
| Disease | History and Symptoms | Physical examination | Laboratory findings | Imaging findings | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdominal pain | Steatorrhea | Weight loss | Fever | |||||
| Chronic pancreatitis | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | DM type II, amylase and lipase levels may be slightly elevated | |||
| Pancreatic cancer | ||||||||
| Ampullary carcinoma | ||||||||
| Autoimmune pancreatitis | ||||||||
| Lymphoma | ||||||||
| Pancreatic endocrine tumors | ||||||||
| Acute pancreatitis | ||||||||
| Cholangitis | ||||||||
| Biliary obstruction | ||||||||
| Pseudocyst | ||||||||
| Pancreatic duct stricture/stone | ||||||||
| Cholecystitis | ||||||||
| Chronic gastritis | ||||||||
| Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) | ||||||||
| Intestinal perforation | ||||||||
| Crohn disease | ||||||||
| Myocardial infarction | ||||||||
| Mesenteric artery ischemia | ||||||||
| Peptic ulcer disease | ||||||||
| Retroperitoneal hematoma | ✔ | Anemia | MRI is the best radiologic tool to differentiate between retroperitoneal masses. | |||||
| Retroperitoneal abscess | ✔ | ✔ | Leukocytosis, positive inflammatory markers | |||||
| Retroperitoneal tumors (.e.g. liposarcoma) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | positive tumor marker | ||||