[Ultrasonographic assessment of chronic pancreatitis severity. Pancreatic index].
OBJECTIVE
To introduce the pancreatic index assessing severity of chronic pancreatitis (CP).


METHODS
Ultrasonography was made in 28 patients with clinically documented diagnosis of CP. A total of 6 groups of ultrasonographic signs served the basis for calculation of scores for a complex formalized semiquantitative criterion--the pancreatic index (PI). Ultrasonographic signs--the size of the head, calcinates, structure, maximal size of the ductus pancreaticus, pseudocysts, etc. were assessed in scores from 1 to 3. Severity of the disease was classified according to total PI.


RESULTS
The following correlation was found between severity of CP and the PI: in mild CP--57%, in moderate CP--71%, in severe CP--66%.


CONCLUSIONS
Ultrasonographic PI objectively evaluates severity of CP course.
Orlikov
G A
GA
Pliavinia
I A
IA
Pokrotnieks
Iu Ia
IuIa
Seleznev
Iu V
IuV
D002908:Chronic Disease; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D010192:Pancreatic Pseudocyst / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography