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LEONARDO C. VIRIL, MD; ARTHUR P. KLOTZ, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1963;112(4):612-615.

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A clinical diagnosis of pancreatic disease is often difficult to make. Relatively simple laboratory procedures that may be of help are consequently worth careful consideration, and it is for this reason that this survey is being reported.

Corbett¹ as long ago as 1913 directed attention to high urinary amylase levels in diseases of the pancreas. All cases of malignant or inflammatory pancreatic disease in his study revealed high values. In 1935 Foged² reported 16,000 determinations on 4,000 patients. Seventy cases of acute pancreatitis were included, and all demonstrated an increase in urinary amylase levels within two days of the acute attack. Saxon ³ in 1957 and Budd⁴ in 1958 correlated serum and urinary amylase levels in patients with pancreatic disease. These authors concluded that the urinary amylase test reflected activity of pancreatic disease better than did the serum amylase test. It was because of such recorded observations . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
KANSAS CITY, KAN

Fellow in Gastroenterology( Dr. Viril).

University of Kansas Medical Center.

Footnotes
Received for publication June 25, 1962; accepted May 6, 1963.

Presented in part at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Chicago, June 25, 1962.

This investigation was supported by PHS trainin grant 2A-5213 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease, Public Health Service.

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