The revised atlanta classification of acute pancreatitis: Its importance for the radiologist and its effect on treatment

Radiology

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 751-764

  Thoeni, Ruedi F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; BACTEREMIA; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL EDEMATOUS PANCREATITIS; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREATITIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EDEMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; RISK FACTORS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858741938     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110947     Document Type: Review

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