[State after pancreatitis--as a clinico-pathological term (author's transl)]

Up to now, little attention has been paid in the clinical as well as in clinico-pathological systematics to the fibrotic "state after pancreatitis" (in its severest form called "cicatrical pancreas"). This state is of interest not only as an increased risk of a recurrent pancreatitis (including acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis), but as well as because of the severe pancreatographic changes, as they occur in (chronic) pancreatitis. In biopsy diagnoses of the pancreas the "cicatrical pancreas" also has to be taken into consideration as a life-long frequently inactive pancreatic disease. With respect to these questions 264 pancreases, among these a series of 144 random autopsy cases, were examined histologically and pancreatographically.