Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Pseudocysts: What is the Evidence?

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 385-393

  Cannon, Jeremy W ^a   Callery, Mark P ^b   Vollmer Jr , Charles M ^b  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ABSCESS; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS TUMOR; PANCREATICOJEJUNOSTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69249222637     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2009.04.017     Document Type: Review

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