B. Lembcke
1997
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Abstract
There is a gap between the application of breath tests for pancreatic insufficiency in clinical routine in some parts of the world and their role among scientific efforts, towards achieving a better characterization of impaired pancreatic function as a routinely applicable indicator of exocrine pancreatic disease in others. Currently, two facts need to be considered: (1) at the end of 1995, except for research purposes, not a single institution in Germany ever used any type of breath tests for the diagnosis of pancreatic insufficiency or the malabsorption of fat; (2) on the other hand, in 1993 the Editorial Office of the Lancet commented “that faecal fat estimations are probably not the gold standard method for assessing malabsorption” and that “labelled triglyceride (such as C 14 triolein) is more commonly used to diagnose pancreatic disease” and is a “more accurate measure of fat malabsorption.”