Abstract
A case is reported of pancreatic insufficiency following abdominal irradiation for Hodgkin's disease in a man aged 47 years. The effects of radiation on the pancreas are discussed. It is suggested that post irradiation steatorrhoea may have a pancreatic as well as an enteric cause.
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