Surgery for chronic pancreatitis in Finland is rare but seems to produce good long-term results

Figure 5 Quality of life in the chronic pancreatitis patients who underwent surgery, compared to control chronic pancreatitis patients. All patients who answered the quality of life (QoL) questionnaire in the surgical group were smokers. The control group consisted of Finnish chronic pancreatitis patients who did not have surgery and smoking contributing to their disease. A and B: QoL functioning (A) and symptom scores (B) had a tendency to be better in most parameters in the surgical group, but without significance. A higher score was better in the functioning scores (A), and a lower score was better in the symptoms scores (B). CP: Chronic pancreatitis.