Pancreas hypoplasia

Annular pancreas, pancreas divisum, pancreatic hypoplasia and agenesis, heterotopic pancreas Inherited syndromes affecting the pancreas Cystic fibrosis... 

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Complete agenesis of the pancreas is usually incompatible with life. Therefore, pancreatic aplasia or hypoplasia is uncommon in humans. Patients with pancreatic hypoplasia will have a normal development of the pancreas in size and shape but later in life will have a replacement of the glandular elements with fatty tissue. Some of these patients will present with an abnormal exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and normal endocrine function. Children with syndromes such as Schwachman-Diamond, Beckwith-Wiedemann, polysplenia bilobed lungs, and congenital heart disease have a higher relative risk of hypoplasia of the pancreas (Gazelle et al. 1998). 

The characteristic CT findings of intestinal nonrotation include abnormal orientation of the superior mesenteric vessels, aplasia or hypoplasia of the uncinate process of the pancreas, right-sided small bowel loops, a left-sided colon, and the absence of the horizontal part of the duodenum. Vertical or reversed location of the superior mesenteric vessels is, however, not specific for intestinal malrotation. 

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