Pancreas Flashcards
What is the exocrine part of the pancreas?
Pancreatic acinar
What is the endocrine part of the pancreas?
Islet of langerhans
What are the anterior border of the pancreas?
(R to L)
- Transverse mesocolon
- Lesser sac
- Stomach
What are the posterior border of the pancreas?
(R to L)
- Bile duct
- Portal and splenic veins
- IVC
- Aorta
- SMA
- Left psoas
- Left suprarenal
- Left kidney
- Spleen
Which part of the pancreas directly overlies superior mesenteric vessels?
Neck
The uncinate process projects from the inferior part of the head which extends medially to the left (anterior/posterior) to SMA?
posterior
[Embryology]
forms the remaining head, body and tail o the pancreas
Dorsal pancreatic bud
[Embryology]
forms most of the head, and the uncinate process
ventral pancreatic bud
Tumors in the uncinate process will most likely compress which artery
Superior mesenteric artery
The accessory pancreatic duct which lies in the head of the pancreas drains to the
main pancreatic duct
What are the arterial blood supply of the pancreas?
- Superior pancreaticoduodenal artery (from gastroduodenal)
- Inferior pancreaticoduodenal (from SMA)
- Pancreatic (from splenic)
What are the venous drainage of the pancreas?
- Splenic vein
2. superior mesenteric vein
In whipple’s pancreaticoduodenectomy, what structures are removed?
- Head of the pancreas
- Duodenum
- CBD
- Distal part of stomach
The superior posterior pancreaticodudenal artery is a branch of
hepatic artery
The posterior inferior pancreaticoduodenal artery is a branch of
SMA
