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. 2012 May 24;7(5):e37652. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037652

Table 1. Distribution of the causes of non-tumor-induced pancreatitis in patient group.

Type of pancreatitis
Cause of pancreatitis All Acute Chronic Recurrent acute
(n = 237) (n = 42) (n = 166) (n = 29)
Alcohol 90 [38] 8 [19] 75 [45] 7 [24]
Autoimmunitya 52 [22] 2 [5] 49 [30] 1 [3]
Idiopathic 31 [13] 7 [17] 14 [8] 10 [34]
Gallstones 26 [11] 16 [38] 8 [5] 2 [7]
Pancreas divisumb 16 [7] 1 [2] 10 [6] 5 [17]
Crohn's disease 3 [1] 1 [2] 2 [1] 0 [0]
Choledochal cyst 3 [1] 3 [7] 0 [0] 0 [0]
Ulcerative colitis treated with salazosulfapyridine 2 [1] 0 [0] 1 [1] 1 [3]
Pancreatic calculus due to IPMN 2 [1] 0 [0] 1 [1] 1 [3]
Hyperlipidemia 2 [1] 1 [2] 0 [0] 1 [3]
Heredity 2 [1] 0 [0] 2 [1] 0 [0]
Alcohol and gallstones combined 2 [1] 0 [0] 2 [1] 0 [0]
Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 1 [0] 0 [0] 0 [0] 1 [3]
Pancreaticobiliary maljunction 1 [0] 0 [0] 1 [1] 0 [0]
Trauma 1 [0] 1 [2] 0 [0] 0 [0]
Hypothermia 1 [0] 1 [2] 0 [0] 0 [0]
Hypercalcemia 1 [0] 0 [0] 1 [1] 0 [0]
Cholesterol embolism 1 [0] 1 [2] 0 [0] 0 [0]
a

,Diagnosed according to the Asian Diagnostic Criteria of Autoimmune Pancreatitis revised in 2008 [39];

b

,Diagnosed by exclusion [8]; IPMN, intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm.

Numbers in square brackets represent percentages.