Revising the Atlanta Classification of Acute Pancreatitis: Festina Lente

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1474-1475

  Petrov, Maxim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL SOCIETY;

HUMANS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 77955842519     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-010-1269-9     Document Type: Letter

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