Recurremt Chronic Pancreatitis due to Pancreas Divisum: Diagnosis By Multislice CT Pushpender Gupta, Sumeet Bhargava, Satish K. Bhargava, Suchi Bhatt, Ridhima Gupta

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The gold standard for diagnosis of pancreas divisum has been the invasive ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography). More recently, it has been recognized that the pancreatic ductal anatomy may be defined non-invasively by MRCP (Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography). The sensitivity of CT scan has been considered to be too low for general clinical use for confirming the diagnosis of pancreas divisum. However, Multislice spiral CT with its increased spatial and temporal resolution, ability to do Multiplanar reconstructions in any plane with isotropic resolution may allow confident diagnosis of pancreas divisum obviating the need for diagnostic ERCP or MRCP.