Disconnection of the pancreatic duct: An important but overlooked complication of severe acute pancreatitis

Radiographics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1389-1400

  Sandrasegaran, Kumaresan ^a   Tann, Mark ^a   Jennings, S Gregory ^a   Maglinte, Dean D ^a   Peter, Sanjit D ^a   Sherman, Stuart ^a   Howard, Thomas J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS DUCT; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DUCTS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34948891085     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.275065163     Document Type: Review

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