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Infections of the Hepatobiliary System
- Source :
- Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI. 41:46-62
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Hepatobiliary infections account for a small but clinically important proportion of emergency department presentations. They present a clinical challenge due to the broad range of imaging characteristics on presentation. Recognition of complications is imperative to drive appropriate patient care and resource utilization to avoid diagnostic pitfalls and avert adverse patient outcomes. A thorough understanding of anatomy infectious pathology of hepatobiliary system is essential in the emergency setting to confidently diagnose and guide medical intervention. Many presentations of hepatobiliary infection have characteristic imaging features on individual imaging modalities with others requiring the assimilation of findings of multiple imaging modalities along with incorporating the clinical context and multispecialist consultation. Familiarity with the strengths of individual imaging modalities in the radiologists' arsenal is imperative to guide the appropriate utilization of resources, particularly in the emergent time sensitive setting. Accurate identification and diagnosis of hepatobiliary infections is vital for appropriate patient care and management stratification.
- Subjects :
- Multimodal imaging
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Biliary Tract Diseases
Liver Diseases
MEDLINE
Emergency department
Infections
Multimodal Imaging
Patient care
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Imaging modalities
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Emergency Service, Hospital
Intensive care medicine
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Resource utilization
Time sensitive
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08872171
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....02f3561ea7994ec021d5d5528ba4bc26