POSSIBLE RELATION OF BILIARY PATHOLOGY ON CHRONIC PANCREATITIS: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE

Abstract

The authors report a series of patients suffering from chronic pancreatitis and underline the high frequency of biliary pathology in these subjects. The authors remind, then a research performed, some years ago, by one of them.

In such a research the performing of an anastomosis between the pancreatic duct and the biliary common duct in a series of experimental animals caused an acute pancreatitis or in the surviving animals a chronic pancreatitis.

The authors believe that a biliary pathology may be responsible not only of an acute pancreatitis but also of a chronic pancreatitis.