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The body and neck of the pancreas drain into the splenic vein, which sits behind the pancreas. [7] The head drains into, and wraps around, the superior mesenteric and portal veins, via the pancreaticoduodenal veins. [7] The pancreas drains into lymphatic vessels that travel alongside its arteries, and has a rich lymphatic supply. [7]
Diagram showing the position of the pancreas. Date: 30 July 2014 (released by CRUK) Source: Original email from CRUK: Author: Cancer Research UK: Permission (Reusing this file) This image has been released as part of an open knowledge project by Cancer Research UK. If re-used, attribute to Cancer Research UK / Wikimedia Commons
There are about 1 million islets distributed throughout the pancreas of a healthy adult human. While islets vary in size, the average diameter is about 0.2 mm. [5]:928 Each islet is separated from the surrounding pancreatic tissue by a thin, fibrous, connective tissue capsule which is continuous with the fibrous connective tissue that is interwoven throughout the rest of the pancreas.
Body of pancreas; Left kidney and adrenal gland; Splenic flexure of colon; Parts of transverse and descending colon; The right upper quadrant (RUQ) extends from the median plane to the right of the patient, and from the umbilical plane to the right ribcage. The equivalent term for animals is right anterior quadrant. Important organs here are: Liver
The pancreas arises as two separate bodies, the dorsal pancreas and the ventral pancreas. The dorsal pancreas appears first, at around day 26, opposite the developing hepatic duct, and grows into the dorsal mesentery. The ventral pancreas develops at the junction of the hepatic duct and the rest of the foregut.
The pancreas produces and releases important digestive enzymes in the pancreatic juice that it delivers to the duodenum. [24] The pancreas lies below and at the back of the stomach. It connects to the duodenum via the pancreatic duct which it joins near to the bile duct's connection where both the bile and pancreatic juice can act on the chyme ...
Anatomical terminology [ edit on Wikidata ] The ampulla of Vater , hepatopancreatic ampulla or hepatopancreatic duct is the common duct that is usually formed by a union of the common bile duct and the pancreatic duct within the wall of the duodenum .
Pancreas: 16. Accessory pancreatic duct 17. Pancreatic duct 18. Small intestine: 19. Duodenum 20. Jejunum 21–22. Right and left kidneys The front border of the liver has been lifted up (brown arrow). [1] A bile duct is any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile, and is present in most vertebrates. The bile duct is separated ...