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01-05-2020 | Magnetic Resonance Cholangio Pancreatography | Special Section: Pancreatitis

Pancreatitis in the developmentally anomalous pancreas

Authors: Cecil G. Wood, Camila Lopes Vendrami, Elizabeth Craig, Pardeep K. Mittal, Frank H. Miller

Published in: Abdominal Radiology | Issue 5/2020

Abstract

Developmental anomalies of the pancreas include more common entities such as pancreas divisum and annular pancreas, and unusual entities such as heterotopic pancreas. While these anomalies can present a diagnostic challenge to the radiologist, when the pancreatic tissue involved in these processes develops pancreatitis, the radiographic appearance can present a diagnostic dilemma. Awareness of these pancreatic anomalies and familiarity with their appearance when inflamed is necessary to distinguish pancreatitis in the developmentally anomalous pancreas from other inflammatory or neoplastic processes.

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Title: Pancreatitis in the developmentally anomalous pancreas
Authors: Cecil G. Wood
Camila Lopes Vendrami
Elizabeth Craig
Pardeep K. Mittal
Frank H. Miller
Publication date: 01-05-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Magnetic Resonance Cholangio Pancreatography
Acute Pancreatitis
Pancreatitis
Published in: Abdominal Radiology / Issue 5/2020
Print ISSN: 2366-004X
Electronic ISSN: 2366-0058
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-019-02197-8

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