title: Bifid tail of the pancreas with localized acute pancreatitis.
abstract: Bifid tail of the pancreas is an extremely rare developmental anomaly, and its clinical importance is not well known. We report the case of a 28-year-old man with acute pancreatitis limited to one side of a bifid tail with no otherwise detectable parenchymal edema on magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Neither was there evidence of other anatomical ductal abnormalities that could have contributed to the patient's pancreatitis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to suggest that bifid tail of the pancreas might cause acute pancreatitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Sho
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Koyasu
authors.forename: Hiroyoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Isoda
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakase
authors.forename: Yuzo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: Kaori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Togashi
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*