GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ENDOSCOPY
Online ISSN : 1884-5738
Print ISSN : 0387-1207
ISSN-L : 0387-1207
A CASE OF AGENESIS OF THE DORSAL PANCREAS.
KAZUO HARIMA, TAKESHI AIBE, YUGI NAGATOMI, MASAO KAWASHIMA, Noboru Maetani, SHIGEMI ARIYAMA, MITSUO AZUMA, MICHIHIKO SHIMIZU, TADASHI FUJI, KIYOHIRO KAWAHARA, SEISHIRO WATANABE, KIWAMU OKITA, SUSUMU KAWAMURA, TADAYOSHI TAKEMOTO, KAZUHIRO OGINO
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1979 Volume 21 Issue 12 Pages 1478-1482

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This report is a case of agenesis of the dorsal pancreas, which has been reported in four cases in Japan and also rarely seen in foreign countries. a 46 year old man presented with hungry pain, anorexia and weight loss for two months. He visited a doctor. 75Se-Pancreas scintigraphy showed the deficit of the portion of pancreatic body and tail. ERP showed the obstruction of the main pancreatic duct looked like the short main pancreatic duct symdcome. He was operated with the suspicion of pancreatic cancer. The diag nosis on operation was the agenesis of the dorsal pancreas. Histologically the remaining pancreas was almost normal, but islet cells were increasing in number, than that in normal pancreas head.
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