Prospective study of 310 patients: Can early CT predict the severity of acute pancreatitis?

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-115

  Knoepfli, A S ^a   Kinkel, K ^b   Berney, T ^a   Morel, P ^a   Becker, C D ^a   Poletti, P A ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Institut de Radiologie   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis outcome; Predictive CT criteria

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYPERAMYLASEMIA; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248375710     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-006-9034-y     Document Type: Article

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