Correction

Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

N Engl J Med 1999; 341:460August 5, 1999

Article

Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis (Review Article, N Engl J Med 1999:340;1412 - 1417) . On page 1416, the sentence that begins 12 lines from the bottom of the right-hand column should have read, “A subsequent report of a larger study by the same authors demonstrated a significant reduction in mortality among patients who received a platelet-activating factor antagonist within 48 hours after the onset of symptoms,” not “among patients who received platelet-activating factor,” as printed.