Who needs to be operated? Prognostic evaluation of the necessity of surgery in chronic pancreatitis according to the M-ANNHEIM classification

Abstract

s / Pancreatology 15 (2015) S1eS141 S71 patients underwent resective surgery for complications of pancreatitis; none had developed pancreatic cancer. 3 patients died, one from metastatic oral cavity cancer, one frommetastatic malignantmelanoma and one from oesophagus cancer. Conclusion: In clinical follow up of patients with hereditary pancreatitis pancreatic cancer development is rare. Neither is the presence of pancreatic duct stenosis on ERCP a reliable positive predictor for pancreatic cancer development, nor its absence a negative predictor (Choudari et al. Gastrointest Endosc.2002;561:66-71).