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Does Incompetence of the Sphincter of Oddi Exist? Can It Account for Certain Cases of Acute Pancreatitis?

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More than 30 years before Oddi’s first publication, Claude Bernard wrote (6) “this aperture is contractile, so that it prevents inflow of intestinal fluids into the pancreatic ducts, an event which could lead to the destruction of the organ”. The origin and pathophysiology of duodenopancreatic reflux was thus questioned.

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Delmont, J., Vedel, J.P., Faure, X., Vauban, G., Harris, A. (1982). Does Incompetence of the Sphincter of Oddi Exist? Can It Account for Certain Cases of Acute Pancreatitis?. In: Hollender, L.F. (eds) Controversies in Acute Pancreatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68518-7_1

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