Selective Management of Patients with Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

Dana A. Telem,Kimberly Bowman,John Hwang,Edward H. Chin,Scott Q. Nguyen,Celia M. Divino

Selective Management of Patients with Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

2009

Dana A. Telem
Kimberly Bowman
John Hwang
Edward H. Chin
Scott Q. Nguyen
Celia M. Divino

Background Detection of common bile duct (CBD) stones in patients with acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP) proves challenging. We hypothesized that grouping clinically significant predictors would increase reliability of detection.

Keywords:

Common bile duct
Alkaline phosphatase
Gastroenterology
Radiology
Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography
Receiver operating characteristic
General surgery
Ultrasound
Medicine
Internal medicine
Biliary pancreatitis
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
laparoscopic cholecystectomy
in patient
Surgery

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