[Evaluation of autopsy cases in pancreatic cancer]

The incidence of pancreatic cancer has increased recently. The average age of pancreatic cancer patients in our series was 60.6 years; the male to female ratio was 2.3:1. As for tumor location, the head (45.5%) was the most frequent followed by the body (32.7%) and the tail (20%). Pancreatic cancers were histologically classified as duct carcinoma (88.2%), acinar cell carcinoma (0.9%), islet cell carcinoma (1.8%) and undifferentiated carcinoma (9.1%). In 17 cases (15.5%), diabetes mellitus was an accompanying complication.