Intrapancreatic Obstruction

Abstract

IT CERTAINLY seems fair to say that Opie's1 explanation in 1901 of the mode of production of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis has influenced opinion concerning this condition to the present time. He demonstrated at autopsy a common opening into the duodenum of the bile duct and the pancreatic duct in a patient who had died of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, and the presence of a biliary calculus in the ampulla of Vater. This converted the bile duct and the pancreatic duct into a common channel, permitting bile to enter the pancreatic duct. This demonstration has associated biliary-tract disease with the production of . . .