Acute pancreatitis: detecting by ultrasound or CT scaning?
- Author:
Ha Tien Quang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acute pancreatitis
- MeSH:
Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing;
ultrasonography;
Patients;
Tomography, Emission-Computed
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2003;439(1):26-28
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
From Jan 1998 to Dec 2000 a study on 41 acute pancreatitis patients was conducted by comparation description with ultrasound and CT scanning. The diagnostic results of two techniques are coincident considerably such as the large dimension of pancrea, the infiltration of the tissues around the pancrea, the gangrene of parenchyma. However, CT is preferable to ultrasound in the prognosis, these two techniques were suitable in diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, ultrasound can be used as a detective tool for discovering preliminarily acute pancreatitis and afterwards, CT can conducted to evaluate the prognosis. These techniques can let pass the dispensed hemorrlagy and the gangrene of parenchyma
