title: The interventional radiological procedures of the infections of pancreas.
abstract: Infected necrotizing pancreatitis is the most severe form of acute pancreatitis and is related with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The close cooperation and communication, working as a team, among interventional radiologists surgeons and gastroenterologists improves the successful treatment considerably. Therapeutic modalities such as percutaneous CT-guided catheter drainage can be helpful to save lives, changing dramatically the clinical aspect of the patient. The objective of this paper is to review the indications and techniques of image-guided percutaneous treatment of pancreatic infected pseudocysts and to report our clinical experience and observations made during primary CT-guided percutaneous catheter drainage of infected abscesses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology-Computed Tomography, Konstantopouleion General Hospital, Athens, Greece. pekatman@otenet.gr
authors.forename: Petros
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Maniatis
authors.forename: Spiros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Delis
authors.forename: Dimitris
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fagrezos
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bakoyiannis
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dervenis
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Papailiou
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D019283:Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed