MDCT of acute mild (nonnecrotizing) pancreatitis: Abdominal complications and fate of fluid collections

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 643-649

  Lenhart, Dipti K ^a   Balthazar, Emil J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Acute pancreatitis; MDCT; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PANCREAS JUICE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; SCHOOL CHILD;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 39749187139     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2761     Document Type: Article

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