[The surgical treatment of acute necrotic pancreatitis (the experience of 37 patients)].

The results of the operative management of 37 patients with acute necrotic pancreatitis, covering a ten-year period (1984-1993), are discussed. It is stressed that regardless of the complex conservative and subsequent precisely indicated operative management, acute necrotic pancreatitis remains an exclusively serious and problem disease, accounting for a still very high overall lethality--35.1 per cent according to the case material analyzed. In the authors opinion the most opportune time for surgical intervention is within 5-7 days after the onset of the disease.