[Incidence of pancreatic carcinoma in persons with chronic pancreatitis].

Pancreatic carcinoma is one of the diseases which mostly fail to be diagnosed on a timely basis, and there is no way to effectively screen patients for pancreatic carcinoma either. An option for the diagnosis of the "early glandular carcinoma" therefore resides in identification and systematic screening of patients with risk of pancreatic carcinoma.We monitored 223 patients with chronic pancreatitis on a systematic basis from 1992 to 2005....