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Causes of Acute Pancreatitis
| More Common | Choledocholithiasis |
| Alcoholism | |
| Post endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography | |
| Drugs | |
| Abdominal trauma | |
| Less Common | Malignancy/tumor |
| Hypertriglyceremia | |
| Hyperparathyroidism | |
| Hypercalcemia | |
| Viral infection (e.g., mumps, Coxsackie B, Hantavirus) | |
| Developmental abnormalities (e.g., pancreas divisum, annular pancreas) | |
| Toxins (e.g., scorpion or snake bite) |
