Postpancreatectomy acute pancreatitis: Fact? Fiction? Functional definition and future

This special series features four papers addressing the concept of postpancreatectomy acute pancreatitis. Pancreatic surgeons have long recognized that some percentage of pancreatectomy patients manifest increases in circulating pancreatic enzyme (amylase, lipase) activity in the immediate postoperative period. The clinical relevance of these increases in serum enzyme activity (which for the sake of clarity I will refer to as “postoperative...