Fluid collections in and around the pancreas in acute pancreatitis

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 614-625

  Brun, Alexander ^a   Agarwal, Nanakram ^c   Pitchumoni, C S ^b  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute pancreatitis; acute peripancreatic fluid collections; pancreatic pseudocyst; postnecrotic pancreatic fluid collections; walled off pancreatic necrosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; POSTNECROTIC PANCREATIC FLUID COLLECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WALLED OFF PANCREATIC NECROSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; BODY FLUIDS; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING;

EID: 79960611769     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318213ef3e     Document Type: Review

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