title: Effectiveness and limitation of surgical treatment for chronic pancreatitis.
abstract: The effectiveness of various forms of therapy for chronic pancreatitis during the past fourteen years at our clinic was presented. Forty-nine patients underwent surgical treatment and twenty-six were treated medically, a total of seventy-five. The surgical procedures were classified as direct and indirect. Therapeutic results were better in the surgical group. Relief of abdominal pain was achieved in 92% of the direct and 94% of the indirect operative groups. Objective results, such as pancreatic function tests, were inconsistent. Direct operations were further evaluated by comparing the results of longitudinal pancreaticojejunostomy to other surgical procedures.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010180:Pancreatectomy; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis