Exploration of liver, gall bladder, pancreas, duodenum and spleen
Dissection of pancreas (continued).
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Image #146-5
Exploration of liver, gall bladder, pancreas, duodenum and spleen
Dissection of pancreas (continued).
Glandular tissue of the head and part of the body of the pancreas has been removed. Openings have been cut in the bile ducts, gall bladder and main pancreatic duct. Blood vessels to the anterior and posterior aspects of the duodenum have been preserved. The biliary ducts are shown in earlier stages of dissection in views 145-3 and 146-4
- Crus of diaphragm (covered by fascia)
- Left gastric artery
- Body of pancreas (pointers on intact areas bordering dissected central part of pancreas)
- Splenic plexus
- Splenic artery
- Pancreatic duct
- Splenic vein
- Jejunum (cut across)
- Branch of splenic artery
- Splenic lymph nodes
- Spleen
- Branches of splenic artery
- Filament of splenic plexus
- Splenic vein
- Tail of pancreas
- Pancreatic branch of splenic artery
- Cut edge of peritoneum of mesocolon (splenic flexure)
- Kidney (covered by renal fascia)