[Interest of bilio-pancreatic morphologic study in management of acute pancreatitis (author's transl)].
The interest of morphologic investigations in the diagnosis, the prognosis and the treatment of acute pancreatitis was analyzed in a series of 120 patients. The systematic endoscopy of the biliary tract yields a distinction between the biliary and the non-biliary sources of pancreatitis and can be followed immediately by an endoscopic sphincterotomy. Th morphological study of the bilio-pancreatic area can complete the prognostic indexes defined by the clinical and biological data, document the extension of the intra- and extrapancreatic necrosis and precise the indication and the choice of a surgical treatment.
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