Sankalé M
Med Trop (Mars). 1984 Jul-Sep;44(3):259-68.
Number of cases of pancreatitis obviously increases in african Black not so much acute forms but mainly chronic calcifying forms of which ethylism represents the main etiology. As in cancers and pancreatic cysts, symptomatology shows no particular characteristic in Negroes. Moreover, because some deficiencies in the sanitary network, lethality remains at a high level. A special form, principally identified in Kerala and Java, is met in some african areas: the juvenile tropical pancreatitis syndrom, with diabetes as main symptom, of which no explanation can be given up to now.
非洲黑人胰腺炎病例数明显增加，并非急性胰腺炎形式增多，主要是慢性钙化性胰腺炎，其中酒精中毒是主要病因。与癌症和胰腺囊肿一样，黑人的症状没有特别特征。此外，由于卫生网络存在一些缺陷，致死率仍然很高。在一些非洲地区发现了一种主要在喀拉拉邦和爪哇识别出的特殊形式：青少年热带胰腺炎综合征，以糖尿病为主要症状，目前尚无解释。
