12 years of experience with cholecystojejunostomy for the palliative treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer

Abstract

and tail. 74% of sensory fibres were localized in the pancreatic head, 19% in the corpus and 7% in the tail. Conclusions: Murine pancreatic head has the highest density of pancreatic nerves. Overall, due to its intraperitoneal and perilymphoid localization, the mouse pancreas bears a substantially different structural innervation pattern when compared to the human pancreas.