Editing Steatorrhea (section)

==Diagnosis==
Steatorrhea should be suspected when the stools are bulky, floating and foul-smelling.<ref name="Handbook"/>   Specific tests are needed to confirm that these properties are in fact due to excessive levels of fat.  Fats in feces can be measured over a defined time (often five days).<ref name="PMID24259956">{{cite journal|last1=Lindkvist|first1=B|title=Diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency|journal=World Journal of Gastroenterology|date=14 November 2013|volume=19|issue=42|pages=7258–66|doi=10.3748/wjg.v19.i42.7258|pmid=24259956|pmc=3831207|doi-access=free}}</ref> Other tests include the (13)C-mixed triglycerides test and fecal [[elastase]], to detect possible fat maldigestion due to [[exocrine pancreatic insufficiency]],<ref name="PMID24259956"/> or various specific tests to detect other causes of [[malabsorption]] such as [[celiac disease]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rubio-Tapia|first1=A|last2=Hill|first2=ID|last3=Kelly|first3=CP|last4=Calderwood|first4=AH|last5=Murray|first5=JA|last6=American College of|first6=Gastroenterology.|title=ACG clinical guidelines: diagnosis and management of celiac disease|journal=The American Journal of Gastroenterology|date=May 2013|volume=108|issue=5|pages=656–76; quiz 677|doi=10.1038/ajg.2013.79|pmid=23609613|pmc=3706994}}</ref>