[Treatment method in external pancreatic fistulae]

The authors' experience includes 62 patients with pancreatic fistulas. Complex conservative treatment was first used in all the patients and proved to be effective in 11 of them. In 42 patients with fistulas resistant to conservative therapy the surgical treatment was fulfilled. Postoperative lethality was 7,1%. During 1980 the authors were using their original operative method of closure of pancreatic fistulas with good and stable effect.