Lack of enrollment numbers - participants are no longer being examined

The purpose of this project is to provide appropriate administrative and technical supports for the warehousing and use of imaging data in pancreatic necrosis data for research purposes.

The aim of this study is to create a prospective registry of patients with pancreatic collections and their imaging studies (including CT, MRI, EUS, and direct endoscopic visualization) to compare these techniques, develop standardized methods for analyzing these imaging studies, and use this information to enhance management of patients with pancreatic collections. There is very limited published literature on these peripancreatic lesions that compares all three of these modalities and thus we aim to study it in detail.

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients who are known to have a pancreatic fluid collection after an episode of acute pancreatitis
• age greater than 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• pregnant woman
• age <18 years
• prisoners
• other institutionalized individuals
• patients who are decisionally impaired

Patients at Northshore-LIJ being evaluate by the gastroenterology service