[Relationship between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis]. / Relazioni tra il carcinoma pancreatico e la pancreatite cronica.

The best known papers on relations between chronic pancreatitis and tumours of the pancreas are reviewed and a description given of the anatomopathological changes which gradually lead from chronic pancreatitis to cancer. It is maintained that all cases of chronic pancreatis should be considered high risks for pancreatic carcinoma.