Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
If you have this condition and have symptoms or pancreatitis that keeps returning, your doctor may recommend surgery.
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
The outcome is usually good.
Complications
The main complication of pancreas divisum is
Calling your health care provider
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if you develop symptoms of this disorder.
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Review Date: 01/20/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of
Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San
Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
