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Annular pancreas differential diagnosis
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Differentiating Annular Pancreas from other Diseases
Differentiating Annular Pancreas from other Diseases
Differential diagnosis includes:
- Pancreatic divisum: failure of the dorsal and ventral pancreatic ducts to fuse resulting in the majority of secretions exiting via the accessory pancreatic duct
- Pancreatic neoplasms
- Duplication cyst of the duodenum
- Duodenal atresia (failure of canalization of small intestine or part of it)
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