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Editor, Senior Moderator
Radiol Case Rep
. 2020 Jun 11;15(9):1601-1603.
doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.06.019. eCollection 2020 Sep.
COVID-19-associated acute pancreatitis: a rare cause of acute abdomen
Safaa Saeed Al Mazrouei[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ghufran Aref Saeed[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Abeer Ahmed Al Helali[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Covid-19 is a viral disease that has spread throughout the world causing unprecedented impact on millions of people. It's a pandemic disease called officially by the World Health Organization in March 11, 2020. The disease mainly involves the upper respiratory tract system. Extrapulmonary manifestations are still not well understood. In this report, we describe a case of acute pancreatitis in a patient with Covid-19 infection who presented to our hospital.
Keywords: CECT, contrast enhanced computed tomography; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; CT, computed tomography; ED, emergency department; H1N1, Hemagglutinin Type 1 and Neuraminidase Type 1; RT-PCR, Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.
. 2020 Jun 11;15(9):1601-1603.
doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.06.019. eCollection 2020 Sep.
COVID-19-associated acute pancreatitis: a rare cause of acute abdomen
Safaa Saeed Al Mazrouei[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ghufran Aref Saeed[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Abeer Ahmed Al Helali[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32685078
- PMCID: PMC7287434
- DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.06.019
Abstract
Covid-19 is a viral disease that has spread throughout the world causing unprecedented impact on millions of people. It's a pandemic disease called officially by the World Health Organization in March 11, 2020. The disease mainly involves the upper respiratory tract system. Extrapulmonary manifestations are still not well understood. In this report, we describe a case of acute pancreatitis in a patient with Covid-19 infection who presented to our hospital.
Keywords: CECT, contrast enhanced computed tomography; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; CT, computed tomography; ED, emergency department; H1N1, Hemagglutinin Type 1 and Neuraminidase Type 1; RT-PCR, Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.