Research advance in the diagnosis of pancreas divisum

Zong-fu Zheng, Qi-cai Liu

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2010.212208                

Abstract

Pancreas divisum is a kind of congenital anatomic abnormality; its diagnostic basis depends mainly on imaging examination. With the development of medical science, imaging technology has been improved and added, and a complete examination system including ERCP, B-Ultrasound, MRCP, S-MRCP and CT, etc. has been formed. There are even researcher, through further analysis of pancreas divisum on the level of genes, found that CFTR is a risk factor causing such disease. This paper is focused on the value of these examination methods in the diagnosis of pancreas divisum.

Keywords

Pancreas Divisum; Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (EPCR); Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography (MRCP); Computed Tomography (CT); Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR)

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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