Underestimation of acute pancreatitis: Patients with only a small increase in amylase/lipase levels can also have or develop severe acute pancreatitis

Gut

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 542-544

  Lankisch, P G ^a   Burchard Reckert, S ^a   Lehnick, D ^b  

^a Municipal Hospital of Lueneburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Amylase; Lipase; Mortality; Prognosis; Severity

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ALCOHOLISM; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0032958656     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.44.4.542     Document Type: Article

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