The Surgery of the Pancreas (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The pancreas lies not only functionally, but anatomically, at the centre of the abdominal cavity, lying transversely across the spinal column at the level of the first or second lumbar vertebra, though occasionally higher, across the twelfth thoracic.

In shape Meckel compared the pancreas to a sort of hammer; Verneuil to a cross placed on its side, the short vertical arm repre senting the head; Winslow compared it to a dog's tongue; Piersol1 compares it with a revolver, the head of the pancreas representing the handle of the revolver. These descriptions convey fully as accurate a concept of the form of the organ as does the division into many parts and surfaces of which the anatomists seem so fond. Since the surgeon has no occasion to investigate the normal organ, and since the normal picture is so complicated by adhesions and infiamma tions when he does see it, the relation of the organ to surrounding structures is of more concern to him than the normal form.

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