Haemorrhagic complications of pancreatitis: Presentation, diagnosis and management

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 316-325

  Ammori, B J ^a,b   Madan, M ^a   Alexander, D J ^a  

^a Department of Surgery

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embolisation; Haemorrhage; Pancreatitis; Pseudoaneurysm; Pseudocyst; Rupture; Spleen; Varices

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTERY RUPTURE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PANCREATITIS; PSEUDOCYST; REVIEW; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN RUPTURE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; FEMALE; HEMATEMESIS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; SPLENIC ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031684236     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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