Meandering main pancreatic duct

Last revised by Yaïr Glick on 13 Jul 2021

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Citation:

V U, Glick Y, Kang O, et al. Meandering main pancreatic duct. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 07 Dec 2023) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-25463

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-25463

Permalink:

https://radiopaedia.org/articles/25463

rID:

25463

Article created:

26 Oct 2013, Umamaheswara Reddy V

Disclosures:

At the time the article was created Umamaheswara Reddy V had no recorded disclosures.

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Last revised:

13 Jul 2021, Yaïr Glick ◉

Disclosures:

At the time the article was last revised Yaïr Glick had no recorded disclosures.

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Revisions:

10 times, by 7 contributors - see full revision history and disclosures

Systems:

Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary

Sections:

Anatomy, Classifications

Tags:

stub, cases, refs, anatomy rewrite

Synonyms:

Meandering main pancreatic duct (MMPD)

Meandering main pancreatic duct (MMPD) denotes a main pancreatic duct that drains normally into the major papilla but performs a hairpin turn (reverse Z-type) or loop (loop-type) in the pancreatic head, in contradistinction to the smooth curvature seen in most cases.

These ductal variants are found on ERCP and MRCP studies. Their exact incidence is not known.

Significantly increased incidence of meandering pancreatic duct has been reported in patients with idiopathic recurrent acute pancreatitis (40%) compared with the general population (2.2%) ¹.