The revised Atlanta classification for acute pancreatitis: A CT imaging guide for radiologists

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-243

  Sheu, Y ^a   Furlan, A ^a   Almusa, O ^a   Papachristou, G ^b   Bae, K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Acute peripancreatic fluid collection; Acute postnecrotic fluid collection; Atlanta classification; Pseudocyst; Walled off pancreatic necrosis

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PERIPANCREATIC FLUID COLLECTION; ACUTE POSTNECROTIC COLLECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL EDEMATOUS PANCREATITIS; PANCREAS ABSCESS; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; REVISED ATLANTA CLASSIFICATION; STANDARDIZATION;

HUMANS; PANCREATIC PSEUDOCYST; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84863724114     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: 14381435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-011-1001-4     Document Type: Review

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