Pancreas Flashcards
What is the pancreas?
a) exocrine gland
b) endocrine gland
c) both
both exocrine and endocrine gland
What is the exocrine function of the pancreas?
secretion of digestive enzymes
What is the endocrine function of the pancreas?
secretion of the hormones insulin and glucagon
What are the five parts of the pancreas?
head, neck, body, tail, uncinate process
What is the uncinate process?
projection of head to left behind superior mesenteric vessels
Where does the pancreas lie?
posterior to stomach within epigastric and left hypochondrium regions
What is the only part of the pancreas that is not retroperitoneal? and what is it a part of?
tip of tail and it is apart of splenorenal ligament
Where does the head of the pancreas lie?
in c-shaped concavity of duodenum
Where does the mesenteric artery and vein pass the pancreas
posterior to neck and anterior to uncinate process
What artery runs along superior surface of pancreas?
splenic artery
What artery runs along posterior surface of pancreas?
splenic vein
What is the pancreas drained by?
pancreatic duct and accessory pancreatic duct
What does the pancreatic duct drain?
neck, body, tail of pancreas
What does the pancreatic duct and common bile duct make when they form together?
hepatopancreatic ampulla
What does the accessory pancreatic duct drain?
head and uncinate process of pancreas
