Acute deterioration of a woman following acute pancreatitis with pseudocysts

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 545-549

  Aoun, Elie ^a   Papachristou, Georgios I ^a   Whitcomb, David ^a   Ahmad, Iftikhar ^a   Slivka, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coil embolization; Pancreatitis; Pseudocyst; Psuedoaneurysm

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ARTERY; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, FALSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; SPLENIC ARTERY;

EID: 31344466790     PISSN: 17434378     EISSN: 17434386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0317     Document Type: Article

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