Proposal and Validation of New Diagnostic Criteria for Diagnostic Weights of Endoultrasonographic Findings for Early Chronic Pancreatitis.

ABSTRACT: [Background and study aim] A commonly applied method for diagnosing chronic pancreatitis (CP) uses endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS), assigning weights to each EUS diagnostic finding. It is the Rosemont classification (RC). In 2019, to improve EUS diagnostic specificity, Japanese diagnostic criteria for early chronic pancreatitis (ECP) were revised. Nevertheless, the criteria use no weighting of EUS diagnostic findings, as the RC does. This study was undertaken to propose diagnostic criteria that would weight each EUS finding of ECP and that would be more specific than the RC. [Methods] By EUS of the pancreas, 773 patients underwent detailed observation from January 2018 to March 2019 at our institution. An expert finalized all cases when patients were diagnosed. Using data from the medical

SUBMITTER: Kashima K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10455995 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature