CT-Guided Percutaneous Catheter Drainage of Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Clinical Experience and Observations in Patients with Sterile and Infected Necrosis

In our experience, primary CT-guided percutaneous catheter drainage was successful for approximately one half of the patients with acute necrotizing pancreatitis. The presence of multisystem organ failure appears to be a more important indicator of outcome than does the presence of infection.