Involvement of the juxtarenal spaces and kidneys in pancreatitis has b
een well known. Although delineation of the regions of accumulation of
exudate has been elegantly confirmed with the advent and advance of r
efined computerized tomography (CT) there has been relatively little d
escription in the earlier literature of these phenomena. This essay se
rves to illustrate the wide range of findings that have been encounter
ed and recorded more recently. (C) Elsevier Science Inc., 1997.