title: Magnetic resonance imaging for the normal mesostenium and involvement of the mesostenium in acute pancreatitis.
abstract: The main point of this paper is to study MRI findings of the normal mesostenium and the involvement of the mesostenium in acute pancreatitis and to discuss the relationship between the involvement of the mesostenium and the severity of acute pancreatitis. In clinical practice, the mesenterical involvement in acute pancreatitis was often observed on MRI in daily works, which was little recorded in the reported studies. We conducted the current study to assess the mesenterical involvement in acute pancreatitis with MRI. We found that the mesenterical involvement of acute pancreatitis patients is common on MRI. The mesenterical involvement has a positive correlation with the MR severity index and the Acute Physiology and Chronic Healthy Evaluation II scoring system. It has been shown that MR can be used to visualize mesenterical involvement, which is a supplementary indicator in evaluating the severity of acute pancreatitis and local and systemic complications.
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Xiao Xiao
authors.initials: XX
authors.lastname: Chi
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Xiao Ming
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Tian Wu
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Yi Fan
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan Province 637000, China.
authors.forename: Xiao Hua
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008642:Mesenteric Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012720:Severity of Illness Index