This article, the sixth in an eight-part series, examines the anatomy and physiology of the endocrine glands and tissues associated with the gastrointestinal tract The endocrine system comprises ...

This article – the third in a six-part series on the gastrointestinal tract – describes chemical digestion in the duodenum and the role by the liver and pancreas in this process. It also discusses ...

The pancreas is a six-inch-long gland in your abdomen near your liver and small intestine. It controls important hormone and enzyme secretion. Without it, your body can’t properly operate many vital ...

THIS little work, now reprinted from the Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine (March 1937), contains one of the classics of medicine, which was presented by the medical student Paul ...

An annular pancreas is a rare congenital deformity (one that you are born with) that affects the pancreas. It happens when your pancreas doesn’t develop as it should. Instead, a ring of extra ...

Your pancreas is a gland that makes enzymes to digest your food and hormones to regulate your blood sugar levels. Your pancreas is shaped like a comma and located deep in your belly, between your ...

You can live without your pancreas, but you’ll have to take medicines to replace what it does in your body. Thanks to new medicines, life expectancy after pancreas removal surgery is rising. Your ...

Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is a new technique, which allows subsurface histological diagnosis at a cellular and subcellular level in vivo and could provide histological diagnosis during ...

The best treatment of a duodenal-enteric leak with peritonitis after pancreas transplant is re-laparotomy with primary repair of the enteric leak, whether it be at the anastomosis or at one of the ...

The upper digestive tracts of 20 untreated and 14 acid-exposed (Salvelinus fontinalis) were excised, paraffin processed, and 6 micron sections of each stained with azan for microsocopic analysis.