Intractable hiccuping in acute myocardial infarction.

1964; Salek et al., 1965). Unfortunately our patient was too ill for studies of pancreatic function immediately before and after radiotherapy, but irradiation clearly resulted in a rapid inhibition of exocrine pancreatic secretion. The effect was transient: 12 weeks later pancreatic function was only slightly impaired. Though pancreatic ascites has resolved after conservative management and after diagnostic laparotomy (Barua et al, 1962; Cameron et al., 1969) the rapid cessation of pancreatic secretion after irradiation in our case clearly suggests a cause and effect relationship and that irradiation of the pancreas may be a useful treatment of pancreatic ascites, particularly when surgery is inadvisable or impossible.