Pancreas divisum: a cause of pancreatitis in childhood.
The anatomic congenital anomaly pancreas divisum has recently been implicated as a cause of acute pancreatitis. The associated stenosis of the minor papilla has been postulated to cause pancreatitis by producing a relative obstruction to the high volumes of dorsal pancreatic secretion. We present a 10-year-old boy with acute pancreatitis associated with pancreas divisum to illustrate this as a cause of pancreatitis in childhood.
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000002:abnormalities*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology*