Anpullu Masa

Learn ampullary cancer symptoms cause and treatment.

Anpullu masa. Exophytic mass at the ampulla visible on endoscopy jaundice abdominal pain and weight loss may be presenting symptoms epidemiology adenoma and adenocarcinoma of the ampulla of vater account for about 10 of neoplasms that obstruct the distal bile duct. The patient and her family were advised that a pancreatic malignancy. The ampulla of vater also known as the hepatopancreatic ampulla or the hepatopancreatic duct is formed by the union of the pancreatic duct and the common bile duct the ampulla is specifically located at the major duodenal papilla. Ampullary cancer is rare cancer that occurs in a body area that connects the common bile duct and pancreatic duct to the small intestine known as the ampulla of vater.

Ampullary cancer treatment options may include. Attempts were made to clip and cauterize the area but were unsuccessful even with a side viewing scope. The ampulla of vater is an important landmark halfway along the second part of the duodenum that marks the anatomical transition from foregut to midgut and hence. Ampulla of vater regulates the flow of pancreatic juice and bile into the intestine through contraction and relaxation of the sphincter of oddi the sphincter located at.

She improved and was discharged with an hemoglobin of 7 9 g dl. Surgery to remove the pancreas and small intestine. The whipple procedure pancreaticoduodenectomy involves removing the head of your pancreas as well as a portion of your small intestine duodenum your gallbladder and part of your bile duct.