...Kensuke Takuma; Terumi Kamisawa; Taku Tabata; Naoto Egawa; Yoshinori Igarashi Aim: To clarify the features of acute or chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic tumors associated with complete and incomplete pancreas divisum. Methods: Clinical features of pancreatic diseases associated with complete (n...

... (Santorini’s duct), which opens into the minor duodenal papilla [ 1,2,3,4,5 ]. Fig. 1 Schematic illustration of the embryology of normal pancreas and pancreas divisum. Fig. 1. Schematic illustration of the embryology of normal pancreas and pancreas divisum. APD pancreatograms were divided...

.... Endocrine cell micronests are frequently found in the ductal wall/surrounding area of the terminal APD, and predominantly consist of somatostatin- and/or pancreatic-polypeptide-containing cells. In cases of pancreas divisum, inadequate pancreatic juice drainage from the minor papilla might occur, resulting...

...Kazuo Inui; Junji Yoshino; Hironao Miyoshi Background/Aims: We describe procedures for endoscopic approach via the minor papilla in symptomatic patients with pancreas divisum, pancreatic stones, and stricture of the Santorini’s duct, and neoplasms of the minor papilla: endoscopic minor papilla...

... treatment he developed acute pancreatitis. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancraticography showed the duct abnormality of pancrease divisum. This excludes obstruction of pancreatic outflow by a passing gallstone as a possible cause of acute pancreatitis. Therefore, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy must...