A Case of Fibrocystic Disease of the Pancreas with Intestinal Obstruction

Abstract

Fibrocystic disease of the pancreas was first described by Landsteiner in 1905, and it is of interest, that intestinal obstruction was one of the features of his case. Since then, and particularly in the past two decades, many well authenticated cases have been described. Andersen (1938), described three clinicalsyndromes as being associated with essentially the same pathological lesion in the pancreas. The first was characterized by intestinal obstruction in the first week of life (meconium ileus); the second by respiratory infection in the first six months of life; and the third by the development of the coeliac syndrome in later childhood. The division into these types has been generally supported both by authors considering all phases of the disease