Role of imaging methods in acute pancreatitis: Diagnosis, staging, and detection of complications

Clinical Pancreatology: For Practising Gastroenterologists and Surgeons

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 56-80

  Balthazar, Emil J ^a   Krinsky, Glenn ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Diagnostic imaging; Groove pancreatitis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Segmental pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952003911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987506.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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