Infectious cases of acute pancreatitis
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Ninety eight percent of patients present with abdominal pain accompanied by vomiting (25%), while laboratory investigation reveals raised serum and urinary pancreatic enzymes. Imaging methods such as abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography, have high diagnostic accuracy (80%). However the diagnostic method of choice is ERCP which shows not only the exact site, but the number of parasites as well. Moreover ERCP and endoscopic sphincterotomy is the treatment of choice for the extraction of parasites. Everyone agrees that endoscopic sphincterotomy has excellent results when it is performed soon after the onset of symptoms, but adjuvant antielminthic treatment is still indicated.
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