Acute pancreatitis: The role of diagnostic imaging

Critical Reviews in Diagnostic Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 339-363

  Dalzell, David P ^a   Scharling, Eric S ^a   Ott, David J ^a   Wolfman, N T ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pancreas; Pancreatic diseases; Prognostic classification; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ALCOHOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PANCREAS SCINTISCANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031729760     PISSN: 10408371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408379891244208     Document Type: Review

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