It is given a report about the patients with pancreatic illness treated at the Surgical University Clinic in Bochum-Langendreer between 1975 and 1996. The experience with the surgical management of acute and chronic pancreatitis as well as carcinoma of the pancreas is shown by clinical data. Especially experience with pylorus-preserving in pancreatic surgery is pointed out. This operation was in the beginning not popular, but it is practiced nowadays in many surgical centers.