[An association of acute pancreatitis and intestinal infarct due to superior mesenteric artery occlusion].

The clinical case of a 67-year-old woman admitted for abdominal pain whose interpretation created difficulties but which corresponded substantially to the pain encountered in intestinal occlusion associated with diabetes mellitus and increase in amylasemia is reported. After decrease, 48 hours after hospitalization, necropsy revealed extensive acute pancreatitis associated with infarction of the small bowel to occlusion of the superior mesenteric artery.