Annular pancreas differential diagnosis

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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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Differentiating Annular Pancreas from other Diseases