Malignant neoplasms of the pancreas. A study based on autopsy data from 1953 to 1982 in Bialystok, Poland. II. A survey of 195 cases.

Among 195 malignant neoplasms of the pancreas (MNP) diagnosed at autopsy in 1953--1982 the exocrine carcinomas comprised 85.6% and inmular carcinomas 13.8% of cases. MNP were localized most frequently in the head of the pancreas (54.4%), then in the whole pancreas in 14.9%, in the head and the body or in the body and the tail in 20.5%, in the body or in the tail in 10.3% of MNP. There were no infiltrations and no metastases in other organs only in 16 patients (8.2% of MNP). The biliary tracts and duodenum were the most frequent sites of secondary infiltrations. Metastases were most frequent in the liver, then in the liver hilus and mesentery lymph nodes. The concordance of clinical and post mortem diagnosis of MNP was stated in 40.5% cases.