Pancreatitis

Abstract

MANY articles on pancreatitis have dealt with the etiology,1 2 3 4 5 pathology,6 7 8 diagnosis9 10 11 12 13 and various forms of treatment.14 15 16 17 18 19 20 The purpose of this paper is to put more emphasis on the question of prognosis than has been done previously, as well as to comment on some unusual manifestations of the disease.MaterialBetween January 1, 1946 and December 31, 1952, 131 patients were treated for pancreatitis in the West Roxbury, Framingham and Boston Veterans Administration hospitals. For clinical convenience the cases have been classified as proved (108 patients) or presumptive (23 patients). To be placed in the former group a patient must have . . .