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01-01-2010 | Guidelines
Foreword
Author:
Tadahiro Takada
Published in:
Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
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Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
The first Japanese edition of the Guidelines for the Management of Acute Pancreatitis was published in July 2003 [
1]. Its publication was made possible by the painstaking activities that had been conducted since 1994 as a basic task of the Japanese Society for Abdominal Emergency Medicine. It has become a model for a systematic evidence search, specific recommendations at each level and preparation of flowcharts. …