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Advances in prognostic factors in acute pancreatitis: a mini-review.

Theodoros E TE Pavlidis, Efstathios T ET Pavlidis, and Athanasios K AK Sakantamis

Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int 9(5):482-6 (2010) PMID 20943456

Early assessment of the severity of acute pancreatitis is essential to the proper management of the disease. It is dependent on the criteria of the Atlanta classification system.

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