Disease States Associated with Abdominal Pain 145 Disorders of the Esophagus 145 Mallory-Weiss Syndrome 145 Perforation of the Esophagus, Spontaneous 146 Plummer-Vinson Syndrome 146 Disorders of the Stomach 146 Gastritis, Chronic 146 Carcinoma of the Stomach 147 Disorders of the Pancreas 147 Carcinoma of the Pancreas 147 Cystic Fibrosis of the Pancreas 148 Macroamylasemia in Vivo Artifact 149 P...

In the middle of the 18th century, Kouan Kuriyama, a Japanese physician of the Choshu Domain, depicted the anatomy of the human pancreas in a report to his master, Toyo Yamawaki. This report is the first anatomical description of the pancreas in Japan. In the Mediterranean area, the pancreas was apparently first described about 2,000 years before his observation. Although there are quite a few ...

The functioning of the exocrine and endocrine pancreas is strictly co-ordinated through an interdependent array of neural and endocrine, paracrine and autocrine hormonal factors. The responses of the exocrine pancreas to food are primarily initiated via hormones secreted by neuroendocrine cells in the gut. No role for the pancreatic renin-angiotensin system in these mechanisms has so far been e...

Pancreas preservation by cold storage using University of Wisconsin solution was the mainstay method used for pancreas transplantation during the past 2 decades. Other solutions, such as HTK, Celsior, and SCOT 15, could not demonstrate any advantage for short preservation periods. But the advent of clinical islet transplantation and the larger use of controlled non–heart-beating donors have pro...

INTRODUCTION Heterotopic pancreas is defined as pancreatic tissue without a real anatomical or vascular connection to the pancreas. It can be found in the stomach, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, Meckel's diverticulum, colon gall bladder, umbilicus, fallopian tube, mediastinum, spleen and liver. Complications of heterotopic pancreas are inflammation, bleeding, obstruction, malignant transformation, c...

Agenesis of the dorsal pancreas (ADP) is a rare congenital pancreatic malformation in which all or part of the dorsal pancreatic body is absent. ADP is usually confirmed by magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), but these methods are undesirable to patients because of strict limitations or invasiveness. We propose abdominal c...

Heterotopic or ectopic pancreas is pancreatic tissue present at an abnormal location which not connected to the main pancreas. They are predominantly located in gastrointestinal tract, with stomach being most common site. Mostly asymptomatic, they usually detected incidentally during surgeries for other conditions. Preoperative diagnosis very difficult and definitive histopathological examinati...

CONTEXT Agenesis of the dorsal pancreas is one of the rare congenital malformations of pancreas. The association of agenesis of the dorsal pancreas with pancreatic tumors is extremely rare and only around 9 cases being reported till date. CASE REPORT We report a case of a fifty one year old woman with an agenesis of the dorsal pancreas with periampullary pancreaticobiliary adenocarcinoma. She...

Introduction Pancreas transplant was performed for the first time in 1966 at the University of Minnesota. More than 27,00 pancreas transplants were reported in the USA, and further 15,000 were reported all over the world, reaching at 1 year a survival rate of 95% for patients and 85% for pancreas, as reported by the International Pancreas Transplant registry, hold at the University of Arizona [...