SYMPTOMATIC ANNULAR PANCREAS IN THE ADULT
Authors: N W DREY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1957)

Article1 April 1957SYMPTOMATIC ANNULAR PANCREAS IN THE ADULTNORMAN W. DREY, M.D., F.A.C.P.NORMAN W. DREY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-46-4-750 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAnnular pancreas, so named by Ecker21 in 1862, had been previously described by Tiedemann63 in 1818. For many years thereafter the condition was considered an anatomic curiosity, encountered very rarely at the autopsy table. As recently as 1944 the standard textbooks of gastroenterology, with the exception of Bockus,6 either make no mention of this condition or dismiss it with a very few lines. Today annular pancreas is a clinical problem, and there is agreement in recent reports that it is not so rare a condition as it was once thought to be.According to Ravitch and Woods,50annular pancreas is...Bibliography1. AndersonWapshaw JRH: Annular pancreas, Brit. 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