Acute Fulminant Pancreatitis: Debridement or Formal Resection of the Pancreas

摘要

During the ten year period from 1980 to 1989, 51 patients were treated at Oulu University CentralHospital for fulminant acute pancreatitis. Five were in a moribund state on admission and died shortlyafterwards, 6 were treated conservatively and survived, and 40 were operated on, 17 by primarypancreatic resection and 23 by debridement of the peripancreatic area. Mortality rates were 53 per centfor the resection group and for the debridement group 22 per cent.