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Ventral pancreatitis defined on MRI

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Ventral pancreatitis, pancreatitis localized in the embryologic ventral pancreas, is rare. To date, only three well documented reports of ventral pancreatitis have been reported in the English-language literature. All three were associated with pancreas divisum. This report presents a patient suspected to have ventral pancreatitis on endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging.

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  1. Department of Surgery I, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Torahiko Takeda, Junichi Yoshida & Masao Tanaka

  2. Department of Radiology, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan, , , , , , JP

    Kuniyuki Kaneko

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  1. Torahiko Takeda
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(Received Nov. 20, 1997; accepted May 22, 1998)

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Takeda, T., Yoshida, J., Kaneko, K. et al. Ventral pancreatitis defined on MRI. J Gastroenterol 34, 138–140 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005350050230

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