Pancreatic insufficiency following abdominal irradiation

Open Access

1 November 1980

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal

Vol. 56 (661) , 804-805
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.56.661.804

Abstract

A case is reported of pancreatic insufficiency following abdominal irradiation for Hodgkin's disease in a man aged 47 years. The effects of radiation on the pancreas are discussed. It is suggested that post irradiation steatorrhoea may have a pancreatic as well as an enteric cause.

Keywords

ABDOMINAL IRRADIATION
PANCREAS
STEATORRHOEA
MAN
HODGKIN
PANCREATIC
IRRADIATION A CASE
INSUFFICIENCY FOLLOWING ABDOMINAL

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