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Bacterial Infection and the Role of Fine Needle Aspiration

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Standards in Pancreatic Surgery

Abstract

There is general agreement among clinicians and pancreatologists that pancreatic infection is the most important causal factor of lethal outcome in human acute pancreatitis today [1–3]. Bacterial contamination of pancreatic necrosis has been demonstrated in 40%–70% of patients suffering from necrotizing pancreatitis [4–8], and it has been shown that the frequency of positive cultures increases directly with the duration and extent of necrosis. The necroses in 24% of patients with necrotizing pancreatitis operated on during the first week after hospitalization showed bacterial contamination. This percentage increased to 36% in the second week and to 72% in the third week; thereafter a decrease was found to 32% [9]. Bacterial contamination of pancreatic necrosis occurs early and frequently, as verified by Bassi in a similar study and by Gerzof with the aid of computed tomography (CT)-guided fine needle aspiration and Gram staining [5, 6].

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Uhl, W., Büchler, M., Rau, B., Beger, H.G. (1993). Bacterial Infection and the Role of Fine Needle Aspiration. In: Beger, H.G., Büchler, M., Malfertheiner, P. (eds) Standards in Pancreatic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77437-9_12

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