Acute pancreatitis: the difficulties of diagnosis and therapy.
Acute pancreatitis in children is uncommon but is being recognized frequently. Twenty-four children provided clinical data to review the various manifestations and therapy of acute pancreatitis, all of these patients having survived a clinical episode. Recognition of acute pancreatitis has been improved by the advent of new diagnostic procedures such as serum amylase isoenzymes, amylase/creatinine ratio, ultrasonography, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan, and peritoneal lavage. The causative factors in our series were: trauma, biliary disease,, viral (mumps), and steroid therapy. Treatment of acute pancreatitis was nonsurgical unless a specific surgical lesion was present.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009107:Mumps / Q000150:complications; D010179:Pancreas / Q000293:injuries; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011241:Prednisone / Q000009:adverse effects; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications
D011241:Prednisone