[Colonic perforation, a rare complication of acute necrotizing pancreatitis]

The inflammatory disease of the pancreas can be classified like us acute or chronic pancreatitis. The pancreatitis incidence vary according to the countries and the causes which originate it; consumption of alcohol, gallotone, metabolic factors, drugs and others. The anatomopathological spectrum of the acute pancreatitis vary from pancreatitis edematosa, which usually is a light disorder with a limited evolution, to the pancreatitis necrosante, in which the grade of pancreas necrosis keeps relation with the importance of the attack and with its general declarations that in his evolution can give place to numerous complications, among which the colonic perforation is not frequent. We present a 75-year-old woman, with acute pancreatitis necrohaemorragic for colelitiasis multiple that evolves favorably at the beginning of the medical treatment, but she presented a later colonic perforation as a rare complication of the pancreatic process.