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The pancreas is a 14-18 cm long organ and has a weight of 70-80 g. It lies secondary retroperitoneally between stomach and abdominal aorta. The pancreas is surrounded by a thin connective tissue capsule (Capsula fibrosa), from which thin septa draw into the inner part of the gland.
The pancreas is divided into three sections:
Pancreas head, body, and tail.
In addition, the pancreas has an excretory duct, the Ductus panvreaticus and a common bile duct (Ductus chloledochus). These two usually flow together on the Papilla duodeni major into the Pars descendens duodeni. The residue of the formerly dorsal pancreatic duct in the Caput pancreatis, the Ductus pancreaticus accessrius, flows into the Papilla duodeni minor.
There are different variations of the duct:
