DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS BETWEEN BILIARY AND NONBILIARY ACUTE PANCREATITIS: WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF LABORATORY TESTS?
Barbra Rafaela de Melo Santos AzevedoDjalma José FagundesPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery (2022)
It was possible to establish criteria based on laboratory tests for the differential diagnosis between acute pancreatitis of biliary and nonbiliary origin; however, the tests did not show enough sensitivity to propose the creation of an algorithm for differential diagnosis between the same causes.