Uncinate process of pancreas

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Uncinate process of pancreas
1: Head of pancreas
2: Uncinate process of pancreas
3: Pancreatic notch
4: Body of pancreas
5: Anterior surface of pancreas
6: Inferior surface of pancreas
7: Superior margin of pancreas
8: Anterior margin of pancreas
9: Inferior margin of pancreas
10: Omental tuber
11: Tail of pancreas
12: Duodenum
Latin processus uncinatus pancreatis
Gray's subject #251 1200
Dorlands/Elsevier p_34/12667716

In the head of the pancreas, the angle of junction of the lower and left lateral borders forms a prolongation, termed the uncinate process.

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