Head of pancreas

Head of pancreas
1: Head of pancreas 2: Uncinate process of pancreas 3: Pancreatic notch 4: Body of pancreas 5: Anterior surface of pancreas 6: Inferior surface of pancreas 7: Superior margin of pancreas 8: Anterior margin of pancreas 9: Inferior margin of pancreas 10: Omental tuber 11: Tail of pancreas 12: Duodenum
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Identifiers
Latin	Caput pancreatis
Dorlands /Elsevier	c_08/12212190
TA	A05.9.01.002
FMA	10468
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The head of pancreas is a portion of the pancreas that is lodged within the curve of the duodenum, and is flattened anteriorly (from before). The other parts of the pancreas are the body and the tail.

Its upper border is overlapped by the superior part of the duodenum and its lower overlaps the horizontal part; its right and left borders overlap in front, and insinuate themselves behind, the descending and ascending parts of the duodenum respectively.

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  Head of pancreas

References

• This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

External links

• Anatomy figure: 37:05-13 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The lesser peritoneal sac. "
• Anatomy figure: 38:06-09 at Human Anatomy Online, SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "The gallbladder and extrahepatic bile ducts."
• Anatomy image:7984 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center
• Diagram at upstate.edu
• Anatomy diagram: 36067.019-1 at Roche Lexicon - illustrated navigator, Elsevier