Abstract
ACUTE pancreatitis as a complication of surgical operations on organs adjacent to the pancreas has been recognized for many years. Because it has been regarded generally as a rare occurrence attributable to direct injury to the pancreas or, in operations on the biliary tract, to reflux of bile into the pancreatic duct, the subject has not received adequate attention in the literature. Our attention was drawn to this problem by an experience with 8 cases over a two-year period and by the excellent studies of Millbourn1 and Warren.2 The latter author's data are of particular interest because they demonstrate that . . .
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