UK guidelines for management of acute pancreatitis: Is it time to change? [4]

Gut

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1344-1345

  Gurusamy, K S ^a   Farouk, M ^a   Tweedie, J H ^a  

^a BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TRYPSINOGEN ACTIVATION PEPTIDE;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC;

EID: 23944518255     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2005.071076     Document Type: Letter

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