Postoperative pancreatitis as a complication of abdominal interventions

: After the surgical treatments in upper abdomen (supramesocolic region) the laboratory parameters frequently point at postoperative pancreatitis. Typical clinical finding is hidden by the primary postoperative disease. Only the complications menifestly point at the existance of pancreas affection. The authors are considering pathogenesis of postoperative pancreatitis, discrepancy about the interpretation of the obtained laboratory parameters, the clinical finding and give a short description of the complication during postoperative pancreatitis, which actually has forced them for the surgical intervention.