Tropical pancreatitis

Description

Tropical pancreatitis is a rare pancreatic disease of juvenile onset occurring mainly in tropical developing countries and characterised by chronic non-alcoholic pancreatitis manifesting with abdominal pain, steatorrhoea and fibrocalculous pancreatopathy. It is also commonly associated with the development of pancreatic calculi and pancreatic cancer at a much higher frequency than seen in ordinary chronic pancreatitis.

Exclusions from above levels

• DC30.Y – Cystic fibrosis of pancreas with pancreatic insufficiency
• DC35.2 – Pancreatic steatorrhoea
• 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases