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Subcutaneous soft tissue densities: a computed tomography indicator of severe pancreatitis
A A Ghiatas1, V D Nguyen, M Perusek
1Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio 78284.
Gastrointestinal Radiology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Twenty patients with known acute pancreatitis had 50 computed tomography studies. Those with severe pancreatitis showed streaky and fluffy soft tissue densities in the flanks and some in the gluteal regions. The appearance and disappearance of this finding correlates with the extravascular movement of fluid due to severe pancreatic inflammation.