AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 7 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2023.75981
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Pancreatic Enzymes Elevation and Emergency Setting: Pancreatitis or Not Pancreatitis? That is the Question

Mirko Barone1 Massimo Ippoliti1 Felice Mucilli1,2
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1 Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, “SS. Annunziata” University Hospital of Chieti, Italy
2 D'Annunzio University of Chieti, Pescara, Italy
EJMO 2023, 7(2), 197–199; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2023.75981
Submitted: 23 April 2023 | Accepted: 31 May 2023 | Published: 19 June 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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None declared.
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