[The surgical treatment of pancreatic carcinoma (a retrospective study)]

The authors report the data from the surgical treatment of 426 patients with pancreatic carcinoma, treated at the Academy of Medicine-General and Operative Surgery, within the period 1983-1992, as well as from their own material, consisting of 70 right-sided resectio of the pancreatis, done within the period 1978-1992. The patients with explorative laparatomies constituted 10.8% and had postoperative lethality 15.2%. Palliative operations were 73%, with postoperative lethality 13.2% and average survival 6.47 months. The radically operated patients constituted 16.19%, with postoperative lethality 14.28% in the general series and 7.14% in the personal series and postoperative survival 18.7 months. From the radically operated with a right-sided localization of the process 10.7% patients had 5 years survival. The early lethality of the left-sided resectio was 0% and the postoperative survival--5-10 months.