Do MRI agents cause or worsen acute pancreatitis?

Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-79

  Erenoǧlu, Cengiz ^a,b   Uluutku, Ahmet Haldun ^a   Top, Cihan ^a   Akin, Mehmet Levhi ^a   Çelenk, Tuncay ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Genel Cerrahi Anabilim Dali ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute necrotizing diagnosis; Gadolinium DTPA diagnostic use; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

GADODIAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TACHYCARDIA; VOMITING;

EID: 33846490745     PISSN: 1306696X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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