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Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography demonstrating that dilated dorsal duct of Santorini is the major duct to the tail of the pancreas and that it does not communicate with the ventral duct of Wirsung in the pancreatic head (complete pancreas divisum)
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During the third hospitalisation, ERCP was carried out and diagnosis of complete pancreas divisum was made (Figure 1).
View of the operative field after opening the dorsal duct and coring out of the pancreatic head and uncinate process
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Whereas inflamed pancreatic parenchyma anterior to the ventral (Wirsung) duct was removed (slice by slice; altogether about 7 g of tissue), and a portion of the pancreatic head and uncinate process which was cored out was also drained by the same Roux-en-Y limb (Figure 2).