Chronic Pancreatitis
Subtitle: Novel Concepts in Biology and Therapy
Contributors: M. W. Buchler (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: February 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780632063994
First sentence: Although the Greeks were thought to be the first to recognize the pancreas as a distinct organ, rabbis in the earlier Babylonian Talmud refer to a structure designated by them as the "finger of the liver"[1].