Kumar A, Panda A, Gamanagatti S. Blunt pancreatic trauma: A persistent diagnostic conundrum? World J Radiol 2016; 8(2): 159-173 [PMID: 26981225 DOI: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i2.159]
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Dr. Atin Kumar, MD, DNB, Additional Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, Room no 63, New Delhi 110029, India. dratinkumar@gmail.com
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
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World J Radiol. Feb 28, 2016; 8(2): 159-173 Published online Feb 28, 2016. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i2.159
Blunt pancreatic trauma: A persistent diagnostic conundrum?
Atin Kumar, Ananya Panda, Shivanand Gamanagatti
Atin Kumar, Ananya Panda, Shivanand Gamanagatti, Department of Radiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
Author contributions: Kumar A was responsible for deciding the overall contents and flow of information in the paper and editing the images; Panda A was responsible for the actual writing and organisng references and tables; Gamanagatti S gave inputs on contents and provided images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this manuscript.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Atin Kumar, MD, DNB, Additional Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, Room no 63, New Delhi 110029, India. dratinkumar@gmail.com
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Received: June 1, 2015 Peer-review started: June 4, 2015 First decision: July 31, 2015 Revised: August 24, 2015 Accepted: December 13, 2015 Article in press: December 15, 2015 Published online: February 28, 2016
Core Tip
Core tip: Pancreatic trauma is an uncommon injury in blunt trauma abdomen. Despite improved multidetector computed tomography (CT) technology, early diagnosis of pancreatic trauma remains difficult. Moreover, pancreatic injury shows evolution with time which affects CT performance in early stages after injury. Diagnosis of pancreatic ductal injury is vital to decide operative vs non-operative management. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography has superseded encoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) in evaluation of duct in acute injury. This review discusses injury mechanisms, laboratory diagnosis, CT and MRI evaluation, role of ERCP and contrast-enhanced ultrasound, management and complications of pancreatic trauma. Evolution of pancreatic injury has been specifically discussed as it has important management implications.
