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... > Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Intestines > Intestine, Small > Duodenum > Ampulla of Vater
Digestive System > Gastrointestinal Tract > Upper Gastrointestinal Tract > Duodenum > Ampulla of Vater
... > Digestive System > Biliary Tract > Bile Ducts > Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic > Common Bile Duct > Ampulla of Vater
Digestive System > Pancreas > Pancreatic Ducts > Ampulla of Vater

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Ampulla of Vater  

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Entry terms

  • Ampulla, Hepatopancreatic
  • Ampullas, Hepatopancreatic
  • Ampulla, Vater's
  • Hepatopancreatic Ampulla
  • Hepatopancreatic Ampullas
  • Vater's Ampulla
  • Vaters Ampulla

Note

  • diseases: coordinate IM with COMMON BILE DUCT DISEASES (IM); inflammation: coordinate IM with CHOLANGITIS (IM); neoplasms: coordinate IM with probably COMMON BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS (IM) but consider also DUODENAL NEOPLASMS or CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL depending on text; note entry term DUODENAL PAPILLA, MAJOR: do not confuse with DUODENAL PAPILLA, MINOR see PANCREATIC DUCTS; "duodenal papilla" unspecified is probably DUODENAL PAPILLA, MAJOR

Scope note

  • A dilation of the duodenal papilla that is the opening of the juncture of the COMMON BILE DUCT and the MAIN PANCREATIC DUCT, also known as the hepatopancreatic ampulla.

History note

  • 2004 (1963)

In other languages

  • Vaterin ampulla

    Finnish

  • ampulla hepatopancreatica
  • ampulla Vateri
  • duodenaaliampulla
  • hepatopankreaattinen ampulla
  • Ampulla vateri

    Swedish

  • Hepatopankreatisk ampulla
  • Papilla duodeni major

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014670

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