Does early ED CT scanning of afebrile patients with first episodes of acute pancreatitis ever change management?
Autor: | Robert J. Dachs, Luke Sullivan, Preshanthini Shanmugathasan |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Radiography Computed tomography Diagnosis Differential Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Aged Retrospective Studies First episode Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Disease Management Emergency department Middle Aged medicine.disease Appropriateness criteria Community hospital Pancreatitis Acute Disease Emergency Medicine Acute pancreatitis Female Radiology business Emergency Service Hospital Tomography X-Ray Computed |
Zdroj: | Emergency radiology. 22(3) |
ISSN: | 1438-1435 |
Popis: | Rising utilization of computed tomography (CT) imaging early in the course of acute pancreatitis (AP) has been recently reported. However, radiographic demonstration of the degree of necrosis or the presence of complications is not fully apparent within the first days of an acute attack. The objective of this study was to examine if CT scanning early in the course of disease ( |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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