Guest guest Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 > Hi, > When you had your TP/ICT was there any part of your > pancreas damaged. Half of my pancreas is damaged. From > what I understand the tail is involved in this. Does > the tail portion have the islet cells? Hi CJ. Sorry it has taken me so long to write back to you. Its been a bad week. The head of my pancreas was completely fibrotic. The doctors never saw that in any scan or ercp it was discovered whe I had having a transduodenal sphincteroplast. I was send to Cincinatti about5 moths after that surgery. The surgeon in Cincy turned me down because I was not sick enough. After that I had what is called a Beger procedure. It is a whipple that spares the part of the stomach and intestine. The spleen as well except not everybody who ahas a whipple has their spleen removed. Anyway, My main pancreatic duct has some very rapid changes to it. The duct was stretched out in some places (dilatation) and all skinny and norrow in other spots (stenosis) there was also clubbing to the accessory ducts. The tail of the pancreas does contain most of the islets cellsl however they can be found elsewhere in the pancreas; just not as plentiful. I would have traveled to the end of the world to have that surgery. Dont think of the distance and traveling as a hinderence. Think of it as going to any length to find some peace. I hope this helps and if there is anything else you would like to know, just ask. Warmly, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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