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Acute pancreatitis represents a spectrum of inflammatory disease which ranges from acute edematous pancreatitis, a relatively mild and self-limiting inflammatory process with a low incidence of complications, to acute hemorrhagic or necrotizing pancreatitis, which is a pernicious process with a high mortality rate and frequent complications [1].
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Freeny, P.C., Marks, W.M. (1986). Computed Tomography in Acute Pancreatitis. In: Malfertheiner, P., Ditschuneit, H. (eds) Diagnostic Procedures in Pancreatic Disease. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71128-2_6
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