Anatomic variations of the pancreatic duct and their relevance with the Cambridge classification system: MRCP findings of 1158 consecutive patients
Artikel-Kategorie: Research Article
Online veröffentlicht: 08. Sept. 2016
Seitenbereich: 370 - 377
Eingereicht: 09. Mai 2016
Akzeptiert: 06. Juni 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/raon-2016-0041
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© 2016 Radiol Oncol
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Background
The study was conducted to evaluate the frequencies of the anatomic variations and the gender distributions of these variations of the pancreatic duct and their relevance with the Cambridge classification system as morphological sign of chronic pancreatitis using magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP).
Patients and methods
We retrospectively reviewed 1312 consecutive patients who referred to our department for MRCP between January 2013 and August 2015. We excluded 154 patients from the study because of less than optimal results due to imaging limitations or a history of surgery on pancreas. Finally a total of 1158 patients were included in the study.
Results
Among the 1158 patients included in the study, 54 (4.6%) patients showed
Conclusions
Vertical course (p = 0.004) and Type 2 (p = 0.03) configuration of pancreatic duct were more frequent in females than males. There were no statistically significant differences between the gender for the other pancreatic duct variations such as