[Polyps of the major duodenal papilla]

Systematic performance of fibroduodenoscopy in patients with diseases of bile tracts and the pancreas made it possible in 90 cases to reveal polyps of papilla duodeni major, which were the cause of chronic recurrent pancreatitis. An experience with 50 operations evidences that transduodenal polypectomy is a radical method of treatment obviating recurrences of pancreatitis.