[Staging and follow-up of acute pancreatitis by angio-computer tomography (author's transl)]

First results of angio-computer tomography (CT) in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis are reported. Angio-CT allows the display of changes occurring during hemorrhagic-necrotizing pancreatitis in a much more precise manner, than has been possible up to now. Enlargement of organs, changes of contours, exudation and hemorrhage into the retroperitoneal space can be diagnosed; after bolus injection of radio opaque viable and well perfused tissue may well be differentiated from necrotic tissue.