Peripancreatic vascular abnormalities complicating acute pancreatitis: Contrast-enhanced helical CT findings

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-72

  Mortelé, Koenraad J ^a   Mergo, Patricia J ^b   Taylor, Helena M ^b   Wiesner, Walter ^a   Cantisani, Vito ^a   Ernst, Michael D ^b   Kalantari, Babak N ^a   Ros, Pablo R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); CT; Diseases; Helical; Pancreas; Pancreatitis; Vascular complications

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

PANCREATIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES; VASCULAR ABNORMALITIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SPLENIC VEIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERY; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PORTAL VEIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 4544282629     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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