PANCREATIC NECROSIS

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The following case of pancreatic necrosis is reported because of the particularly interesting observations and the series of events that occurred during the course of the illness: REPORT OF CASE History. —I. C., a white man, aged 36, a dentist, was admitted to the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn in the private surgical service of Dr. William Linder, April 13, 1932. About twelve hours before admission, the patient began to complain of nausea and retching, with excruciating epigastric pain which radiated first to the front of the chest and then to the right scapular region. The pain became so severe that the patient screamed in agony. The past history revealed that he had had three mild attacks of general pain in the upper part of the abdomen and vomiting two years previously, but no definite diagnosis had been made at that time. The family history was irrelevant. Examination. —The patient was

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