Pancreatic Surgery

Abstract

Postoperative PancreatitisPostoperative pancreatitis is a bizarre and unpredictable disease. An increasing number of articles on this problem are now appearing in the literature. We^{56 57 58} have reported from time to time upon this catastrophic complication, and recently, Cattell, Warren and Prezioso⁵⁹ once more reviewed the experience with postoperative pancreatitis at the Lahey Clinic. Schmeiden and Sebening⁶⁰ pointed out conclusively that this complication occurred most frequently after gastric surgery and then, in turn, after biliary surgery and splenectomy. Millbourn⁶¹ attempted to categorize the etiologic factors and believed that his own material represented a broad etiologic pattern. Dunphy, Brooks and Achroyd⁶² experienced . . .