Open AccessWalled-off pancreatic necrosis: Wishing our pancreatitis nomenclature was correct
Author(s) -
Arkadiusz Peter Wysocki
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v16.i35.4497
Subject(s) - nomenclature , pancreatitis , medicine , atlanta , pancreas , pathology , gastroenterology , taxonomy (biology) , biology , zoology , metropolitan area
The ultimate reason why pancreatologists have strived to establish definitions for inflammatory pathologies of the pancreas is to improve patient care. Although the Atlanta Classification has been used for around for 17 years, considerable misunderstanding of the key elements of the nomenclature still persists. While a recent article by Stamatakos et al aimed to deal with an entity not clearly defined in the 1993 document, it is replete with factual and conceptual errors as well as contradictory statements.