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Digestive System Diseases > Pancreatic Diseases > Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

Preferred term

Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Insufficiencies, Pancreatic
  • Insufficiency, Pancreatic
  • Pancreatic Insufficiencies
  • Pancreatic Insufficiency

Scope note

  • A malabsorption condition resulting from greater than 10% reduction in the secretion of pancreatic digestive enzymes (LIPASE; PROTEASES; and AMYLASE) by the EXOCRINE PANCREAS into the DUODENUM. This condition is often associated with CYSTIC FIBROSIS and with chronic PANCREATITIS.

History note

  • 2005 (1981)

In other languages

  • haiman eksokriininen vajaatoiminta

    Finnish

  • haiman eksokriininen insuffisienssi
  • haiman vajaatoiminta
  • pankreaksen eksokriininen insuffisienssi
  • pankreaksen eksokriininen vajaatoiminta
  • Bukspottkörtelsvikt

    Swedish

  • Bukspottkörtelinsufficiens
  • Pankreasinsufficiens
  • Pankreassvikt

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010188

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