Table 4.

Spearman correlation of plasma markers and histopathological scores

		Amylase	TNF-α	M30	M65	Caspase 3 index
Edema	r	0.709**	0.314	0.587**	0.883**	0.715**
	p	0.000	0.165	0.005	0.000	0.000
Fat inflammation	r	0.563**	0.023	0.584**	0.812**	0.632**
	p	0.008	0.920	0.005	0.000	0.002
Pancreatic inflammation	r	0.668**	0.318	0.420	0.777**	0.602**
	p	0.001	0.160	0.058	0.000	0.004
Fat necrosis	r	0.309	0.197	0.480*	0.673**	0.503*
	p	0.173	0.392	0.028	0.001	0.020
Pancreatic necrosis	r	0.053	0.079	0.191	0.327	0.274
	p	0.820	0.734	0.408	0.148	0.229
Total score	r	0.491*	0.210	0.525*	0.790**	0.615**
	p	0.024	0.361	0.015	0.000	0.003

^*Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed).

^**Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed).