Acute pancreatitis: clinical vs. CT findings

Acute pancreatitis: a clinical survey.

WHEN pancreatitis was first describedl, it was considered to be a fulminating inflammatory process which was inevitably fatal (Fitz, 1889). This view underwent little change over the years, and as recently as 1963 Zachary Cope stated that acute pancreatitis was a condition marked by a sudden onset, with excruciating pain and profound shock (Cope, 1963). Though Opie described the frequent associ...

Acute Pancreatitis - A Clinical Overiew

Acute cerebral ischemia: CT and MR findings.

It has been reported in two recent papers (1, 2) that magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is more sensitive than computed tomography (CT) in the detection of acute cerebral ischemia. We believe this is not entirely true, at least concerning the early phase of ischemic stroke (within 4 hours from the onset of symptoms). It is our conviction that the earlier the recognition of initial parenchymal inj...

Acute subdural hematomas: atypical CT findings.

Seventy-one patients with acute subdural hematomas were examined by CT within 72 hr of a documented head injury. Lesions often did not have the classical appearance of a homogeneous, high-density extracerebral collection of blood in a crescentic configuration. Specifically, 28 patients (39%) had mixed-density subdural hematomas (MDSDH) with various degrees of low-density blood within the subdur...

CT findings in acute renal cortical necrosis.

Acute renal cortical necrosis has three characteristic findings on contrast enhanced CT: (a) lack of enhancement of the renal cortex, (b) enhancement of the renal medulla, and (c) absent renal excretion.