Pancreas Divisum and Acute or Chronic Pancreatitis

Raffaele Pezzilli

doi:10.6092/1590-8577/640

Raffaele Pezzilli Unità Pancreas Dipartimento di Malattie Apparato Digerente e Medicina Interna Ospedale Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Via G. Massarenti, 9 40138 Bologna Italy Phone: +39-051.636.4148 Fax: +39-051.636.4148

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/1590-8577/640

Keywords: Cholangiopancreatography, Endoscopic Retrograde, Magnetic Resonance, Multidetector Computed Tomography, Pancreas /abnormalities, Pancreatitis, Acute Necrotizing, Chronic

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