Abstract
Summary: Alcohol-induced chronic pancreatitis has many complications. This man, since chronic pancreatitis first became clinically apparent, has developed diabetes mellitus, steatorrhoea, ascites (pancreatic) with a possible pseudocyst and a peripancreatic abscess, gallstones, partial common bile duct obstruction, gastric and duodenal deformities (due to adjacent pancreatitis, or peptic duodenal ulceration) and hepatic portal cirrhosis. Pulmonary tuberculosis was present at the time of onset of his pancreatitis. The course of his disease is followed illustrating the spectrum of complications which may develop during the course of chronic pancreatitis.
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