Interventions for necrotizing pancreatitis: Summary of a multidisciplinary consensus conference

Pancreas

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1176-1194

  Freeman, Martin L ^a   Werner, Jens ^b   Van Santvoort, Hjalmar C ^c   Baron, Todd H ^d   Besselink, Marc G ^e   Windsor, John A ^f   Horvath, Karen D ^g   Vansonnenberg, Eric ^h   Bollen, Thomas L ⁱ   Vege, Santhi Swaroop ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

endoscopic necrosectomy; infected necrosis; necrotizing pancreatitis; open necrosectomy; percutaneous catheter drainage; video assisted retroperitoneal debridement

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ASPIRATION NEEDLE; BLEEDING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS FISTULA; PANCREAS RESECTION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; DEBRIDEMENT; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868287446     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: 15364828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPA.0b013e318269c660     Document Type: Review

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