Intense adrenal enhancement in patients with acute pancreatitis and early organ failure

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 317-322

  Bollen, T L ^a   Van Santvoort, H C ^b   Besselink, M G H ^a,b   Van Ramshorst, B ^a   Van Es, H W ^a   Gooszen, H G ^b  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Computed tomography; Intense adrenal enhancement; Organ failure

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADRENAL GLAND; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SYMPTOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADRENAL GLANDS; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34848888339     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0644-7     Document Type: Article

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