Enfermedad inflamatoria del páncreas por autoagresión enzimática: un modelo excepcional de «crinofagia» glandular

The pathogenic features shared by both forms of the disease and which justify some recent attempts to formulate an overall explanation of the pathogenesis of pancreatitis are discussed. Such an explanation would place both forms of pancreatitis within the conceptual framework of an «inflammatory pancreatic disease due to enzyme autodigestion».