Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis in India: looking for a name! Futile or fruitful exercise?

摘要

We read with interest the article by Midha et al and correspondence by various authors on the interesting and challenging topic of idiopathic chronic pancreatitis (ICP) in India. At the outset we would like to congratulate the authors of this good study. We had earlier published a study, which somehow escaped the attention of the authors in their initial study and also later in correspondence, where we had shown that the clinical profile of ICP in North India differs from that of classical tropical pancreatitis (TP) with a higher frequency of pain and a lower frequency of diabetes, pancreatic calcification and intraductal calculi.