ICD-11 classes
13 Diseases of the digestive system
Diseases of pancreas
DC32 — Chronic pancreatitis
DC32.5 — Tropical pancreatitis

ICD-11 DC32.5 — Tropical pancreatitis

Tropical pancreatitis is a rare pancreatic disease of juvenile onset occurring mainly in tropical developing countries and characterised by chronic non-alcoholic pancreatitis manifesting with abdominal pain, steatorrhoea and fibrocalculous pancreatopathy . It is also commonly associated with the development of pancreatic calculi and pancreatic cancer at a much higher frequency than seen in ordinary chronic pancreatitis.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.