Clinical implications of incomplete pancreas divisum

Journal of the Pancreas

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 625-630

  Kamisawa, Terumi ^a   Tu, Yuyang ^a   Egawa, Naoto ^a   Tsuruta, Kouji ^a   Okamoto, Aatsutake ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryology; Pancreas; Pancreatic neoplasms; Pancreatitis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DIVISUM; PANCREAS DUCT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33751073152     PISSN: 15908577     EISSN: 15908577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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