Imaging research progress in evaluating the severity of acute pancreatitis
LIU Li
LI Jing
HAO Qiang
LU Jianping
Abstract：Acute pancreatitis (AP) is one common cause of acute abdominal pain. Given the diversity of its early clinical manifestations, early and accurate assessment of the severity of AP is of great importance to guide the timely and effectively support treatment and improve the prognosis. Imaging examination has become a very useful method to evaluate the severity of acute pancreatitis. Especially, with the development of the new techniques of functional imaging, it promotes the clinical research and has become a hotspot in recent years. In this review we aimed to summarize the recent imaging research progress in evaluating the severity of acute pancreatitis.
Keywords：Acute pancreatitisSeverityTomographyX-ray computedMagnetic resonance imagingFunctional imagingDiffusion weighted imagingUltrasound
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 246-250 )