The characteristic ERCP finding is segmental or diffuse irregular narrowing of the main pancreatic duct, usually accompanied by an extrinsic-appearing stricture of the distal bile duct.
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Risk factors for gall bladder cancer include a " porcelain gallbladder, " or calcium deposits in the wall of the gall bladder, and an abnormal pancreatic duct.
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When the pancreas is stimulated by cholecystokinin, it is then secreted into the first part of the small intestine ( the duodenum ) via the pancreatic duct.
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This is due to a study performed by Zulweski and co-workers, who showed the presence of neural stem cell specific markers in the pancreatic duct of rats.
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The common bile duct and the pancreatic duct enter the second part of the duodenum together at the hepatopancreatic ampulla, also known as the ampulla of Vater.
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Later it was thought, also mistakenly, that the pancreatic duct could simply be tied up without serious adverse effects; in fact it will very often leak later on.
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In 1921, Frederick Banting tied up the pancreatic ducts of dogs and discovered that the isolates of pancreatic secretion could be used to keep dogs with diabetes alive.
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In the lower part of the descending portion, below the point where the bile and pancreatic ducts enter the small intestine, they are very large and closely approximated.
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Both stenosis and dyskinesia can obstruct flow through the sphincter of Oddi and can therefore cause retention of bile in the biliary tree and pancreatic juice in the pancreatic duct.
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He is remembered for the discovery of the pancreatic duct ( " duct of Wirsung " ) during the dissection of a man who had been recently hanged for murder.
