Update on Acute Pancreatitis: Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Features

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 371-383

  Bollen, Thomas L ^a   van Santvoort, Hjalmar C ^b   Besselink, Marc G H ^b   van Es, Wouter H ^a   Gooszen, Hein G ^b   van Leeuwen, Maarten S ^b  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ABSCESS; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOCYST; ULTRASOUND;

ACUTE DISEASE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34548668876     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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