A brief review of the normal histology of the pancreas, as presented by the URMC Pathology IT Program Introduction The pancreas is a compound tubuloacinar, lying behind the stomach and extending transversely from the spleen to the loop of duodenumThe head is joined to the body of the gland by slightly constricted part neckThe body becomes narrow,tapering into tail Pancreas is a duplex gland ie it has both exocrine and endocrine partsThe pancreas of birds is composed of three lobes, a dorsal, a ventral and a splenic lobe It consists of an exocrine and an endocrine part The islets of Langerhans of the endocrine pancreas are more numerous in the splenic lobe For a general description of the avian pancreas and detail of the exocrine part see digestive tract
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